IPCC Chairman Denies Global Warming Slowdown

Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the UN's climate panel, dismissed suggestions of a slowdown in global warming. "There’s definitely an increase in our belief that climate change is taking place and that human beings are responsible,” he told me. "I don't think there is a slowdown (in the rate of temperature increase). I would like to draw your attention to the World Meteorological Organization which clearly stated on the basis of observations that the first decade of this century has been the warmest in recorded history. And I think the rest will be brought out by the report itself when it’s released." --Roger Harrabin,  BBC News, 23 September 2013