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Leading article Australia

Global warming pause

21 September 2013

9:00 AM

21 September 2013

9:00 AM

Given that the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change now apparently acknowledges that an unexpected and unexplainable ‘pause’ in global warming occurred between 1997 and today, perhaps it’s time we also pressed ‘pause’ on our fractious policy debate.

A leaked draft of the IPCC’s latest assessment on climate change appears to throw doubt not only on the extent of human culpability for global warming, but the statistical rate of warming; yet again revising it downwards.

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