Global warming has been stopped for 16 years. Why do some say it is a 1 year trend?

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1972(ish) was the coldest since reasonably modern technology has been used to gather data.
By 1988(1), 16 years of temperature data - rising from the COLDEST year in modern record - was said to be PROOF of a long-term trend.
NOW, the EXACT SAME PEOPLE(2) claim 16 years is totally without significance; being WAY TOO SHORT to be meaningful.

In other words, roughly 100% of the "AGW" proponents claim THEMSELVES to be insane, retarded or dishonest. This is no surprise since they also quite literally claim cause FOLLOWS effect(3), that statistically insignificant correlation(4) proves cause and that correlation of nearly 1.0(5) is meaningless.

(1) 1988 marks the IPCC's initial claims of proved doom.
(2) The IPCC
(3) To the degree any correlation exists between warming and increased CO2, on average the CO2 increase FOLLOWS the warming.
(4) That correlation is less than r=0.1, the accepted threshold for not assuming randomness
(5) A very nearly PERFECT match, as exists between temperature and solar output