What is statistically valid is the fact of no global warming nor rise in sea levels for the last 17 years. Of more importance is the fact that the global warming models can not account for this. The simple explanation is that the global warming computer models are wrong, wrong, wrong, and the global warmests lie about temperatures, their computer models and predictions. Not only do they lie, they hide and will not release the data that their models are based on.
They are wrong, period!
And you are totally correct!