Selected extracts. If you want the whole paper use the link.

"We estimate current underlying temperature, excluding short-term variability via linear fit to the post-1970 temperature (Fig. 1).  The result is +1.07°C at the beginning of 2018 relative to 1880-1920."

(For those that think that this is "data")

"  The GISS analysis extrapolates observations as far as 1200 km from measurement points"

(AKA [s]as[/s (redundant)] smearing. )

"However, the solar variability is not negligible in comparison with the energy imbalance that drives global temperature change.  Therefore, because of the combination of the strong 2016 El Niño and the phase of the solar cycle, it is plausible, if not likely, that the next 10 years of global temperature change will leave an impression of a ‘global warming hiatus’."

(We just don't know) ( And there's that word "hiatus" again.) (Up, down, sideways?)

http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2018/20180118_Temperature2017.pdf