It was like watching an internet forum argument, but on national television — as one tweeter put it.
British physicist Professor Brian Cox tried his best to explain human-induced climate change to avowed skeptic Malcolm Roberts, a newly-appointed senator of the far-right One Nation party in Australia.
The duo went head-to-head on TV program Q&A on Monday night, where Roberts claimed that there has been a pause in global warming for two decades.
“We’ve had a pause in this so-called warming for now 21 years, depends how you measure it, 21 years,” Roberts claimed. That’s when Cox pulled out the The Global-Land Ocean Temperature Index, a graph to illustrate how wrong that claim was. Read more…
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