Stephan Lewandowsky together with James Risbey and Naomi Oreskes published a new study looking at how the contrarian PR campaign has influenced the way serious climate science was being done. Here's the abstract followed by some more information regarding the pause and a previous "Seepage" study.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 2015
The “Pause” in Global Warming: Turning a Routine Fluctuation into a Problem for Science
Stephan Lewandowsky
University of Bristol and University of Western Australia
James S. Risbey
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, Tasmania
Naomi Oreskes
Harvard University
Capsule
Contrarian discourse about a “pause” in global warming has found traction in climate science even though there is little evidence for anything but a fluctuation in the warming rate similar to earlier deviations from a longer-term trend.
