Did you read it? I don't think you understood it. It said the warming slowed during that period. It did not "pause". The first sentence rebuts your claim:
"Since this article was last updated, the slowdown in the rate of average global surface warming that took place from 1998–2012 (relative to the preceding 30 years) has unequivocally ended."
Did you see that? It was a "slowdown" not a pause. And worse yet, that slowdown is over. And the average temperatures are not in "normal range". You are thinking in terms of weather and not in terms of climate. Climate is the average. That has increased. Like I said, you are just like that frog. The temperature has been increasing slowly and you have not noticed it.
By the way, if you want to claim that you can reason you need to do a better job. Please try to learn the difference between climate and weather.
EDIT: A bit more from the article. What actually "paused" was the acceleration of rate of warming. Not only had it been warming but it has been warming faster and faster. If one goes by temperature per decade the warming at record pace has been going on for even longer:
". Yet despite the halt in acceleration, each of the last three decades has been successively warmer at the Earth’s surface than any preceding decade since 1850."
Each decade has been warmer since the previous one except for a glitch from the 1940's since 1900. And if you read the article it told you where the heat from AGW went. In case you did not know the ocean is warming slowly too. For that period due to various factors more of the heat was taken up by the oceans than other periods. Warming did not stop. It was merely redirected temporarily.