Ocean cooling contributed to mid-20th century global warming hiatus

Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 12:56 in Earth & Climate

The hiatus of global warming in the Northern Hemisphere during the mid-20th century may have been due to an abrupt cooling event centered over the North Atlantic around 1970, rather than the cooling effects of tropospheric pollution, according to a new paper appearing today in Nature.

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