As someone else pointed out on another thread, we are still coming out of a very cold period (geologically).
Ergo the temperature is/should be rising, and may do so in jumps and not necessarily at a steady rate.
Second, the more we pave the Earth, the more heat is retained by those surfaces.
I notice none of these current GW scientists has bothered to compare the increase in paved surfaces with the increase in measured temperatures.
..and from a few years ago...
Notice how the article uses a reasonable picture of the "good guy" and a poor one of the "complainer"...:^)
They have not even quantified the amount of heat automobiles give off as they operate their internal combustion engines. They really do not care about the warming. Only care about the crisis and their tyrannical solutions.