Let me setup an analogy to show why this is nothing more than verbal diarrhea spewed by gullible physics deniers.
Let's pretend that warming is debt. To much warming will have significant negative consequences , so will to much debt.
The so called "pause" was an observed slow down in warming in the mid troposphere as modeled from satellite data.
Now it's obvious that the average yearly modeled temperature has been increasing anyway you want to look at it but physics deniers call the time from 1998-2015 the "pause".
We'll call this credit card debt. Maybe $3000 in debt at the start and $3500 at the end.
This plot from the OPs article is of global surface temperatures. Surface temperatures are not the same as mid troposphere temperatures. So the daily mail is trying to compare apples to oranges
It's also well addressed by the Ars link fskimo linked above.
Either way it obvious surface temperatures are increasing.
Let's call this bank loan debt. Maybe $10,000 at the start and $20,000 at the end.
Now the argument from the physics deniers crowd is temperatures aren't increasing it only looks that way because scientists are making it look that way.
Or in our metaphor our credit card and bank debt is barely going up and it only looks that way because both the bank and the credit card company keep screwing the bills up.
If that was all the debt we had maybe it wouldn't be obvious that we have a debt problem and a massive one at that.
We'll call this one gambling debts to the Mafia. It's about $300,000. It dwarfs the others.
Now our resident physics deniers want to ignore this one, says it's not really problem, it doesn't exist, etc. If that was true Miami wouldn't keep going under water during seasonal high tides. Or in our metaphor having its knees broken.
So one guy complaining about how one set of numbers was adjusted that as already brought up a year ago is supposed to overturn all data and all physics.
Hardley.
Settled by whom? Pandering "scientists" virtue signaling group think?
The data is trash.
Now let me translate this.
"I'm a conservative and a physics denier. I'm one of yooooooouuuuuuu!!!!!"
Quite the special snowflake signaling indeed.