Or another way is that the past 20 years have been hotter than the previous 20 years, excluding 1998 which was a spike in the the otherwise consistent trend. It's in the chart in the article.

You did read more than the title, right?

By god! If that short term random fluctuation continued as a long term trend the Earth would continue cooling forever! You've cracked global warming, what an incredible accomplishment!

(Another another way of wording the headline would be to point out that global temperatures are now permanently in a regime which is significantly hotter than historical averages.)