Our climate models are WRONG: Global warming has slowed - and recent changes are down to ‘natural variability’, says study

• Our climate models are WRONG: Global warming has slowed - and recent changes are down to ‘natural variability’, says study

• By Ellie Zolfagharifard For Dailymail.com21:56 23 Apr 2015, updated 00:31 24 Apr 2015

• Duke University study looked at 1,000 years of temperature records
• It compared it to the most severe emissions scenarios by the IPCC
• Found that natural variability can slow or speed the rate of warming
• These 'climate wiggles' were not properly accounted for in IPCC report

Global warming hasn't happened as fast as expected, according to a new study based on 1,000 years of temperature records.

The research claims that natural variability in surface temperatures over the course of a decade can account for increases and dips in warming rates.

But it adds that these so-called 'climate wiggles' could also, in the future, cause our planet to warm up much faster than anticipated.