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There has been a constant debate about whether or not global warming paused in the early 2000s.

UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change presented report in 2013 that proved that there has been a real slowdown in global warming in the last 15 years. It says that the rate of warming between 1998 and 2012 was "smaller than the rate calculated since 1951," however, the body warned that "due to natural variability, trends based on short records are very sensitive to the beginning and end dates and do not in general reflect long-term climate trends." Nevertheless, the pause in global warming has been endlessly debated by deniers since that report.

A recent update from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration aimed at removing the biases that previous report was tainted with. "Newly corrected and updated global surface temperature data .... do not support the notion of a global warming 'hiatus,'" the study found. Another recent research, however, have suggested that the pause may actually be a bias faced between the scientists themselves and if you analyze it over a period of time, the pause seems to go away.

A group of top scientists just published a paper in Nature Climate Change defending the idea of global warming being slow in in 2000s. "The observed rate of global surface warming since the turn of this century has been considerably less than the average simulated rate" created by models of climate change.

The authors of the paper inclide Benjamin Santer of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Gerald Meehl of National Center for Atmospheric Research and Michael Mann of Penn State University. The lead author of the research was John Fyfe of Canadian Center for Climate Modelling and Analysis at the University of Victoria.

Even though they may agree that the global warming slowed down, their current paper does not absolutely think that global warming is over or anything. It did briefly pause but the temperatures have started soaring again, as reported by The Washington Post