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FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — Scientists say the Arctic warmed at a higher rate than previously estimated, refuting the concept of a climate change hiatus between 1998 and 2012.

The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports that in a new study published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Nature Climate Change, scientists analyzed temperature data collected from buoys drifting in the Arctic Ocean to create a more accurate average.

Xiangdong Zhang, who is a scientist at the University of Alaska's International Arctic Research Center, and his colleagues collected the new data set of global surface tempe...