evidence: A number of media reports have asserted that our [study] indicates that global temperatures are not rising as fast as predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and hence that action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is no longer urgent. Both assertions are false. Our results are entirely in line with the IPCC’s 2013 prediction that temperatures in the 2020s would be 0.9-1.3 degrees above pre-industrial [levels]. [...] Models do not overestimate warming by 0.3C [...] An apparent slowdown of the rise in temperatures can be seen in the early part of the 21st century. There is a potential disagreement with climate models that show no slowdown in warming, though observations remain within the model uncertainty range. A number of different studies have examined the causes and implications of this model/observation disagreement, with a recent paper in Nature neatly reconciling all the explanations.