As any scientist who has examined a map of current temperatures around the world can tell you, what we are now experiencing is also a regional phenomenon, and that is true whether temperatures are taken by satellites or surface temperature stations. That, of course, would be completely unrelated to any build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Those are two very different things.
Weather can change suddenly or even be altered regionally for several years.
He published that in a research paper just two months ago, but many climate scientists have been saying the same thing for years.