LiveScience: Dana Nuccitelli is an environmental scientist at a private environmental consulting firm in the Sacramento, Calif., area and a contributor to Skeptical Science. He contributed this article to LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
Most discussions of global warming focus on the temperature of the air at the Earth's surface, where over the past decade warming has slowed. This has resulted in misleading declarations that global warming has "paused." However, failing to consider the heating...