When you say "Empirical Evidence tells us otherwise" , what empirical evidence are you referring to?
WOW And you have the gall to ME a denier. Are you totally blind to anything that doesn't come from the IPCC? Even they concede a "pause". Soon they will have to concede a "stop".
The temperature record, any record that is not "adjusted" such as the satellite data will do. The OP tells us that adjustments are dodgy. They only ever exaggerate a warming trend.