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.
A pause is not going to stay “paused” forever. Either we will see upward trends again (at which point the warmists start screeching again) or the “pause” is actually a peak, at which point the warmists will become deathly quiet.