One of the many studies recently being published about the atmospheric warming pause has been ignored by the media. The key there was ATMOSPHERIC pause, not global Earth pause. Rosenthal et al. found that in the last 60 years, the Pacific Ocean has absorbed heat 15 times faster than the previous 10,000 years by suing foraminifera shells found in sediment cores. If this was widely available to the general population by way of popular media outlets, perhaps they would understand that this heat is really just going somewhere else! One of the authors noted that "We're experimenting by putting all this heat in the ocean without quite knowing how it's going to come back out and affect climate."
This is just one of many published material that can explain this momentary pause. Media Matters reported that 41% of media on the UN's IPCC report mentioned the slowdown. A CBS clip about the report (watch below!) actually called it an "inconvenient truth that the global atmosphere hasn't been warming." Which is technically true, but the heat is just going elsewhere.
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50155923n
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It is also interesting to point out that the short time period being used (around 15 years) may drastically skew data since most time lines are begun in 1998, a strong El Nino year, it shows a stronger temperature hype. Shindell at NASA points out that if you shift the time period to two years prior (1996-2010) the warming is actually 0.14 Celsius warmer than the long term trend. The fun graphs below could explain bit more...
(Next look for my blog on what the actual media outlets (CBS, FOX said about the pause and how they use their influence to confuse the people that watch the nightly news expecting to receive correct information!)
Rosenthal, Y, Linsley, B, and Oppo, D. Pacific Ocean Heat Content During the Past 10,000 Years.
Science. 1 November 2013: 342 (6158), 617-621. [DOI:10.1126/science.1240837]
Greenberg, Max et al. 2013. Media Sowed Doubt In Coverage Of UN Climate Report. False Balance And "Pause" Dominated IPCC Coverage. http://mediamatters.org/research/2013/10/10/study-media-sowed-doubt-in-coverage-of-un-clima/196387
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