What happened to the 'warmest year on record': The truth is global warming has halted | Mail Online

After the leak, Trenberth claimed he still believed the world was warming because of CO2, and that the 'travesty' was not the 'pause' but science's failure to explain it.

The question now emerging for climate scientists and policymakers alike is very simple. Just how long does a pause have to be before the thesis that the world is getting hotter because of human activity starts to collapse?

Nick Coleman: We still can learn from Will Steger | StarTribune.com

"The U.S. is denying what's going on," Steger says. "The problem is climate change has gotten into the political arena. The science of climate change is almost as solid as the science of gravity, but denying it is so politicized that it's in the Republican platform. Well, the climate is going to keep changing, whatever we think."
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"I never thought I'd be out there talking about jobs," he says. "But we need conservatives to get on board with the effort to get a new economy going, an economy with clean energy and renewable resources. Maybe we should just all agree to put the climate debate on the shelf and talk about the economy first..."