claim: ...there has been no increase in the global average surface temperature for the past 16 years ( Judith Curry and David Rose )
evidence: In the Paleocene, with a global average temperature of about 24–25 °C ( 75–77 °F ), compared to 14 °C ( 57 °F ) in more recent times, the Earth had a greenhouse climate without permanent ice sheets at the poles, like the preceding Mesozoic.