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Owen Paterson misleads on climate change
Jan. 14th, 2017 07:39 pmI sent the following to Radio 4's "Any Answers", in response to Owen Paterson MP misleading the listeners on "Any Questions". (My email wasn't read out, partly because the entire show was spent discussing the NHS)
Owen Paterson's claim that "temperatures are coming back down" is not merely wrong, but flagrantly wrong. 2016 has been by far the hottest year on record, beating the previous record holder, 2015 - which itself took the crown from 2014. Just before his claim Paterson referred to temperatures going up during El Niño years, which is true - and if you look at the temperatures of El Niño years you see a clear upward trend, with 2015 and 2016 being considerably warmer than 1998.
Owen Paterson's claim that "temperatures are coming back down" is not merely wrong, but flagrantly wrong. 2016 has been by far the hottest year on record, beating the previous record holder, 2015 - which itself took the crown from 2014. Just before his claim Paterson referred to temperatures going up during El Niño years, which is true - and if you look at the temperatures of El Niño years you see a clear upward trend, with 2015 and 2016 being considerably warmer than 1998.
