Grist: Its conservatives favorite science-denying talking point: that global warming has slowed down, or even stopped altogether, over the last 15 years. Its bogus, of course. Read Chris Mooneys great feature for a full breakdown of how the myth has been spread. (Among other dishonest shenanigans, conservatives are using 1998 as their baseline because it was an unusually warm year due to El Nio.)
But there is a grain of truth to it: Average global surface-air temperatures have been rising at a slower...