‘Tropospheric hot spot’ is found debunking climate meme

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efore climate sceptics got excited about the “hiatus” or slowdown in global surface warming during the past 15 years or so, they were fond of discussing the “missing tropospheric hotspot” – the alleged lack of anticipated temperature increase in the tropical upper troposphere (roughly 5-15 km altitude).

Both the “hiatus” and the “missing hot spot” have been interesting research problems, because models seemed like they might be missing something important.

There have been significant advances on both problems in the past year. And the new results do not offer much hope that scientists are fundamentally mistaken about global warming.

The Director, Climate Change Research Centre at UNSW Australia, Steve Sherwood, writes on The Conversation and so read his story here: “Climate meme debunked as the ‘tropospheric hot spot’ is found”.