We’ve had a pause in this so-called warming for now 21 years,” Roberts said n response, Professor Brian Cox showed a graph clearly illustrating temperature rise and increases in . Roberts responded The data has been corrupted, and we know that the 1930s were warmer than today. ox asked Roberts to clarify what he meant by “corrupted,” to which Roberts responded: Been manipulated by . […] Steve Goddard, he has shown the  figures and the graph was originally showing the 1930s were warmer than recent decades and that is correct.