No it doesn't. There is no reference to the 1997 and 1998 changes .Year over year NOAA cooled the 20th century average by 2.7C. That's huge , when you can claim records by less than a 0.1C
The pause was never predicted ,it just became hard to ignore and only became apparent over time ,after 1998 specifically.Once again , no models predicted  them
see:http://www.remss.com/research/climate
and describe as in fig.1 "Note that after 1998, the observations are likely to be below the simulated values, indicating that the simulation as a whole are predicting too much warming.  "
fig.2 "Again, after 1998, the observations are likely to be below the simulated values, indicating that the simulation as a whole are predicting more warming than has been observed by the satellites.  "