National Geographic: Granted, if you focus on the surface temperature record the rate of warming since 1998 has been slower than the period from 1975 to 1998, particularly if you simply omit the Arctic where the world is warming the fastest (as the Hadley temperature record has done in the past), but looking at the climate system as a whole, particularly if one includes the oceans which are our greatest heat reservoir, warming has actually accelerated.
However, once you take into account natural variability (principally,...