Might wanna actually read the article:
None of this argues against global warming. The 1950s was the last decade cooler than the previous decade, the next five decades were all warmer on average than the decade before. Two year cooling cycles, even if they set records, are statistical noise compared to the long-term trend. Moreover, the case for global warming does not rely primarily on observed warming; it has models, historical studies and other science behind it. Another point is both February 1998 and February 2016 were peak El Niño months so the record declines are starting from high peaks—but it’s also true that there have been many other peak El Niño months in the past century and none were followed by such dramatic cooling.
I call this the “look – it’s going down!” head-fake. You see a long trend of upward rising data, and at regular periods there’s a blip where it goes down for a bit. Then all the deniers cry “look – it’s going down!” Then it goes back up and crickets until the next little down blip.
The SAME GISS data site has graphs that show the global temp, and you can pick out for yourself several points in the last few decades where there’s a two-year period where temp is going down. And I bet most of us can remember the cries of “look – it’s going down!” back then as well.
It’s really kind of sad, actually.