Andrew Bolt's dumb global warming talking point

Andrew Bolt keeps repeatedly claiming that the global warming stopped 16 years ago. Not a huge problem in and of itself. There HAS been a slow down of surface temperature rise. But he keeps framing it as though this is an excuse for inaction on climate change when this is not the case.

It is well-established via lab experiments, basic physics and documenting the earth's history that carbon dioxide can raise temperature and that it has raised the earth's overall temperature in earth's history (see video). Yet a few weeks ago Bolt was interviewed on ABC 24 where he said that he would say to people who think that global warming is a threat that 'there has been a lack of warming for the last 16 years, could you please explain that?' Or words to that effect.
Bolt's implication is that even though it is well established that carbon dioxide causes global warming, we can safely pump as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as we like because there is an unexplained 16 year lag. In other words, we're doing something that SHOULD be killing us, and we have no idea why it's not killing us, so let's continue doing it! Let's keep eating the poison ivy which is mysteriously not poisoning us, until we have a detailed scientific reason for why the poison hasn't taken effect yet!
By the way, the lag is NOT unexplained. The reason that surface temperatures have stopped is because the oceans have absorbed a lot of heat due to trade winds strengthening over the last two decades. The land air isn't as hot as predicted because all the heat is going into the ocean, so the ice caps are still melting. And these trade winds are not permanent. When the ocean releases all the heat it's absorbed the surface temperature will rise significantly.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2014/feb/12/global-warming-fake-pause-hiatus-climate-change
You just have to google 'global warming has stopped' and every news site that isn't owned by Rupert Murdoch will confirm that the '16-year hiatus' in global warming is cherry-picked from all useful context. And even when edited from all useful context, Bolt still sounds like a moron to anyone with half a brain.
And Bolt also refers to the Greens and other non-climate skeptics as 'worshiping the religion of climate change,' when it's really him with the dogmatic refusal to accept reason.