As it turns out, the much ballyhooed “hiatus” in global warming was a fantasy — at least based on a new reading of global temperatures.

The study, published in the journal Science by researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, finds that the average global surface temperature had increased by 0.2 degrees Fahrenheit in each decade since the 1950s due to greenhouse gases, explaining away a seemingly problematic “pause” in global temperatures rises, according to a Los Angeles Times report.

Before, scientists were attempting to explain the sudden stop in global temperature increases with a myriad of possibilities, ranging from dust from volcanic eruptions blocking the sky to a slowed down solar cycle, or even more heat absorption by the world’s oceans. But climate change skeptics have lept on the data as evidence that global warming isn’t really happening, or at least isn’t caused by humans.

This latest study makes scientists’ job a lot more easy. However, not everyone is buying the new figures, which are based on measurements from land stations, ships, and buoys across the globe dating back to 1880.

One climatologist and climate change skeptic at Georgia Tech quoted in report said she didn’t find the analysis very convincing, arguing that it was a politically useful study but not a scientifically useful one. And even those who agree with human-cause global warming aren’t enthused by the study, with a climatologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory saying that the hiatus was a real event and can’t be explained away with new data.

The new NOAA study claims that problems with the way temperatures are measured have led to a perceived “hiatus” which didn’t actually happen upon further review of the data, which the study author claimed causes the hiatus to “simply vanish.”