[PapaBear3625]

Yes, and this is very surprising, because Nature has heretofore been largely unsympathetic to any position but that of the warmist-alarmists.

If they are back-tracking and admitting to the "pause", it probably means that they are worried that global temperatures are starting to trend DOWN.

[lepton]

It is not Down in an absolute sense, but it is well outside of the drastic ‘up’ they predicted, and has been staying there for nearly two decades as their models get more and more outside of even theoretically plausible by their own calculations.