Source: Cowtan and Way
Annual temperature variations are variations in weather. Climate is average parameters over 30 years. Focusing on one year is unscientific cherry-picking. The last three decades have seen a clear warming trend, despite low solar activity. https://www.skepticalscience.com/cowtan_way_surface_temperature_data_update.html
Surface temperature data update – Average temperatures from one year to the next may vary by several degrees. But that is weater variation.. Average temperature over 30 years is climate. To select the temperature for one year and use that as a reference is unscientific cherry-picking.