Cherry picking 2 data points is not the right way to interpret a trend. 2016 was a spike, but if you look at the trend over the past 20 years (in the data set y

Cherry picking 2 data points is not the right way to interpret a trend. 2016 was a spike, but if you look at the trend over the past 20 years (in the data set you linked) it is clear temperature is trending upwards at an accelerating pace.