Obama mocks GOP global warming skeptics and says they 'pretend' they 'can't read' – but ignores new claims that the US has been COOLING since the 1930s

Daily Mail

The president spoke to a partisan audience of environmental activists on Wednesday night in Washington

He claimed GOP lawmakers believe global warming is real but won't admit it because they're afraid of 'a bunch fringe elements' in their own party

'They ducked the question and said "Hey, I'm not a scientist",' Obama joked

Obama ignored new evidence that American scientists have been altering climate data for years

The US Historical Climatology Network has been adjusting its records by replacing temperatures with data fabricated by computer models