What is it with these climate pause deniers?

[Mike]

They still say there is no pause because we have some of the warmest years on record, and that the trend is still positive if you go back far enough. All this means is that the current year's temperature is warmer than the temperature from X years ago. So you have ongoing warming of a multi-year average. They fail to see that this means temperature can stay flat for a long time, and you can still claim it is still warming, unless temperatures return to their long term average. Well, the person who originally made the claim no doubt sees it, but the followers who repeat it perhaps not.