DOHA (Reuters) – Evidence that global warming is man-made is getting stronger, the head of a U.N. panel of climate scientists said, in a further blow to skeptics who argue rising temperatures can be explained by natural variations.

Rajendra Pachauri spoke on the sidelines of a conference in Qatar where 200 nations are trying to reach a deal to cut emissions of greenhouse gases to avert floods, droughts, heat waves and mounting sea levels.

Evidence for man-made climate change getting stronger: U.N. – chicagotribune.com

He got everything right, except that temperatures haven’t risen for 16 years, sea level rise rates have been constant for more than a century, and that there is no correlation in the historical record between weather disasters and CO2.