Lying With Statistics, Global Warming Edition

The Daily Mail, which has something of a speciality in climate denial, apparently discovered this weekend that Britain's Met Office has updated its long-term global temperature series. This happened several months ago, and the changes from the HadCRUT3 series to the HadCRUT4 series were fairly minor, but I guess anything is a good excuse to rerun one of their oldest wheezes: a colorful chart that starts with the unusual temperature spike of 1997-98 to make it look like global warming has stopped...