Using the moving average through June 2017, it's cooler now than it was 20 years ago.  We had an unusually warm late fall last year, followed by an unusually cold winter and spring.  If you're using older data, you may not see it.

 http://www.drroyspencer.com/2017/07/uah-global-temperature-update-for-june-2017-0-21-deg-c/

It's been cool and raining all day here in Thornton.  This time last year, I was wondering if we were going to skip winter.  Yet we ended up with above-average snowpack.  Remember that?

Incidentaly, how the heck do we know what the global temperature is?  Most of our data comes from the lower 48 states in urban areas; we have quite a few in the urban centers of Europe; and a few in Australia.  But virtually none at all in Africa, South America, or either of the poles.  That's called "gerrymandering the data."