Look at the year 1998. See how it clearly stands above many preceding and following years?

In fact, 1998 was so abnormally hot that for a long time AGW skeptics used it as baseline to harp on the meme "global warming has stopped for N years." (It's easy to pretend the world is cooling, when you pick one of the hottest years on record as baseline.)

And now see how 1998 is unambiguously cooler than 2016.

Rest assured, I expect a decade (two if we're lucky) of listening to "Global warming has stopped since 2016" from now on.