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Description: Timeline from peer reviewed science paper (Comment on Ocean heat content and Earth's radiation imbalance. II. Relation to climate shifts Dana Nuccitelli, Robert Way, Rob Painting, John Church & John Cook ; March 31, 2012), showing how much of the heat added to the climate system went into the combination of land-ice-atmosphere, compared to the upper and lower oceans. According to this publication, overall there was no "pause" in global warming, even if the rate at which surface temperatures were increasing did slow down. Source: Skeptical Science
Author: Skeptical Science
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