In the Climatic Research Unit email controversy , an unlawfully disclosed email from Trenberth about this paper was widely misrepresented ; he wrote , " The fact is that we ca n't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we ca n't . " Trenberth has stated : " It is amazing to see this particular quote lambasted so often . It stems from a paper I published this year bemoaning our inability to effectively monitor the energy flows associated with short-term climate variability . It is quite clear from the paper that I was not questioning the link between anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and warming , or even suggesting that recent temperatures are unusual in the context of short-term natural variability . " In a 2013 scientific paper in '' Geophysical Research Letters '' , Trenberth and co-authors presented an observation-based reanalysis of global ocean temperatures . This proposed that a recent hiatus in upper-ocean warming after 2004 had seen the long-term increase interrupted by sharp cooling events due to volcanic eruptions and El Niño . Despite this , ocean warming had continued below the 700m depth
Climatic Research Unit email controversy
Climatic Research Unit email controversy
Kevin E. Trenberth