Global warming...a problem of the past?

As in, prior to 1998, since which the global temperature has been flat. From an opinion piece in The Telegraph:

For many years now, human-caused climate change has been viewed as a large and urgent problem. In truth, however, the biggest part of the problem is neither environmental nor scientific, but a self-created political fiasco. Consider the simple fact, drawn from the official temperature records of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, that for the years 1998-2005 global average temperature did not increase (there was actually a slight decrease, though not at a rate that differs significantly from zero).

Read the rest. Bob Carter, the professor who wrote it, absolutely carves up the global warming adherents.