"Global temperature increase from 1901-2010: 0.8 degrees Global temperature increase from 1979-2010: 0.5 degrees" .............................. Why the slowdown? If CO2 causes temperature rise then why with increasing CO2 1979-2010 the temperature increase drops by 38%?"
The figures given represent an accelerating rate of temperature rise. Over half the total rise over 110 years has happened in the last 30 years.