7 scientific citations posted below dispute Mr. Obama's claims. The overwhelming scientific consensus says the planet completely stopped warming 15 to 17 years ago. Further, US CO2 has plunged during this time while global CO2 has increased. Charts from UK Met office (Der Spiegel) and University of Reading UK (The Economist) follow:
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2/22/13, UN IPCC chief Pachauri says there’s been no warming for 17 yrs. The Australian
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1/18/13, NASA says no warming for 15 yrs. Der Spiegel
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1/18/13, UK Met Office says no warming since 1998, Der Spiegel (chart below, Met Office)
1/18/13, Met Office sees no warming in sight until at least the end of 2017: “The British Met Office forecast even more recently that the temperature interval could continue at a high level until the end of 2017 – despite the rapidly increasing emissions of greenhouse gases.
Then global warming would pause 20 years.” …Der Spiegel
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12/11/12, 134 scientists in letter to UN Sec. Gen., ask him to stop alarmist speech in light of 16 yrs. with no global warming, includes NOAA citation:
“The NOAA “State of the Climate in 2008” report asserted that 15 years or more without any statistically-significant warming would indicate a discrepancy between observation and prediction. Sixteen years without warming have therefore now proven that the models are wrong by their creators’ own criterion.”…(2nd parag. fr. end of letter). “Global warming that has not occurred cannot have caused the extreme weather of the past few years.”…
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3/30/13, NASA, James Hansen, “5 year mean global temperature has been flat for a decade” (The Economist)
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5/26/13, Lord Stern says “global warming ‘fairly flat’ for 10 years, UK Telegraph
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3/30/13, Ed Hawkins, University of Reading, UK, “Temperatures since 2005 are already at the low end of the range of projections derived from 20 climate models. (see chart ). If they remain flat, they will fall outside the models’ range within a few years.” The Economist, Chart showing no warming since 1998:
Chart, Univ. of Reading from The Economist
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Sources:
2/21/13, “IPCC Head Pachauri Acknowledges Global Warming Standstill,” The Australian, Graham Lloyd
1/18/13, “Climate change: scientists puzzle over halt in global warming,” Der Spiegel, by Axel Bojanowski (translation from German). Chart by UK Met Office, via Der Spiegel
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There is valid science about CO2 and there is consensus. Mr. Obama just ignores both of them:
5/30/13, “Obama Doesn’t ‘Have Much Patience’ For Climate Change Deniers,” TPM, Tom Kludt
“President Barack Obama said Wednesday at a Democratic fundraiser in Chicago that...he doesn’t have “much patience” for those who refuse to accept the scientific consensus on climate change. Obama warned donors that the climate is warming at an accelerated rate, and that while the dangers may not be readily apparent, they are still severe.
“But the flipside is we also know that the climate is warming faster than anybody anticipated five or 10 years ago.”…
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1/21/13, “Obama affirms the ‘overwhelming judgement of science’,“ nbcnews.com
“President Obama championed not only the cause to combat climate change, but the validity of science itself.”…
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