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<DIV jQuery1393552650422="4"><CITE><ABBR class=slug-jnl-abbrev
title=Science>Science</ABBR><SPAN class=slug-pub-date itemprop="datePublished">
28 February 2014: </SPAN><BR><SPAN class=slug-vol>Vol. 343 </SPAN><SPAN
class=slug-issue>no. 6174 </SPAN><SPAN class=slug-pages>pp. 976-978
</SPAN><BR>DOI: <SPAN class=slug-doi
title=10.1126/science.1248115>10.1126/science.1248115 </SPAN></CITE></DIV>
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title=10.1126/science.1248115></SPAN></CITE> </DIV>
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<DIV jQuery1393552650422="4"><CITE><SPAN class=slug-doi
title=10.1126/science.1248115></SPAN></CITE><FONT size=5><STRONG>The Tropical
Pacific Ocean—Back in the Driver's Seat?</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV id=contrib-1 class=contributor itemscope="itemscope"
itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemprop="author" sizset="0"
sizcache="0"><SPAN class=name itemprop="name"><A class=name-search
href="http://www.sciencemag.org/search?author1=Amy+Clement&sortspec=date&submit=Submit">Amy
Clement</A></SPAN><A id=xref-aff-1-1 class=xref-aff
href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6174/976.short#aff-1"
jQuery1393552650422="21">1</A>, <SPAN class=name><A class=name-search
href="http://www.sciencemag.org/search?author1=Pedro+DiNezio&sortspec=date&submit=Submit">Pedro
DiNezio</A></SPAN><A id=xref-aff-2-1 class=xref-aff
href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6174/976.short#aff-2"
jQuery1393552650422="22">2</A><SUP></SUP></DIV>
<DIV class=contributor itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"
itemprop="author" sizset="0" sizcache="0"><SUP>1</SUP>Rosenstiel School of
Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway,
Miami, FL 33149, USA. <SUP>2</SUP>School of Ocean and Earth Science and
Technology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA. E-mail: <A
href="mailto:aclement@rsmas.miami.edu">aclement@rsmas.miami.edu</A></DIV>
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<H2>Summary</H2>
<P id=p-2>Average temperatures at Earth's surface are now higher than they were
in the mid-19th century, but the rate of warming has not been steady. A pause in
surface warming in the mid-20th century coincided with increases in the
atmospheric concentrations of sulfate aerosols, which are generally understood
to cool the planet. Surface warming resumed in the 1970s, when strong pollution
controls were implemented in developed countries. Thus, a balance of warming by
greenhouse gases and cooling by aerosols may explain the variable rates of
surface warming in the past century. A pause in global warming since 2000—a
global warming “hiatus”—has opened up new questions about natural and human
activity-driven (anthropogenic) effects on global mean trends in surface
temperature. Recent studies point to the importance of the tropical Pacific in
driving these changes.</P></DIV></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>