UN IPCC HEAD PACHAURI ACKNOWLEDGES GLOBAL WARMING STANDSTILL: ‘Has acknowledged a 17-year pause in global temperature rises, confirmed recently by Britain’s Met Office’
'But said it would need to last '30 to 40 years at least' to break the long-term global warming trend' -- 'If you look at temperatures going back 150 years, there are clearly fluctuations which have occurred largely as a result of natural factors: solar activity, volcanic activity and so on'
Pachauri: ‘What is quite perceptible is, in the last 50 years, the trend is upwards. This is not to say you won’t have ups and downs – you will – but what we should be concerned about is the trend, and that is being influenced now to a large extent by human actions’
