'Meteorologist-in-chief': Republicans mock Obama's Paris climate speech

Donald Trump said Obama's remarks were 'one of the dumbest statements I've heard in politics' as other GOP candidates joined in derision of the US president

Republican presidential candidates have poured scorn on Barack Obama for his comments at the Paris climate talks, with Mike Huckabee mocking him as the "meteorologist-in-chief" and Ted Cruz claiming Obama thinks "having an SUV in your driveway" is more dangerous than Isis.

In a speech to more than 130 world leaders and other delegates at the key UN summit on Monday, the US president quoted Martin Luther King by saying "there is such a thing as being too late".