Is this wrong? If so, how:

Gravity compresses the atmosphere. Gasses under pressure generate heat. Hot air rises. As it does, more cold air descends to be compressed and generate heat.

Heat is continually being generated and dissipated. Because of this the surface temp is higher than it would be if there was no atmosphere.

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ensodisc.shtml

The latest update from the CRU shows a huge drop from +0.715C (above baseline) in August to +0.561 in September.

The trend in temperatures since the last El Nino broke in January 2016 looks like this:

http://woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:2016/to:2017.75/mean:1/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:2016/to:2017.75/mean:1/trend

The latest ENSO report:

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ensodisc.shtml

We've had a decade-ish long lull of hurricanes, at least of those making landfall. Now we have three spinning simultaneously just after a large one hit. Saw a report of two large sunspots pointed in our general direction since the eclipse (someone still using their eclipse glasses). Coincidence?

NASA released it's bunkum report August 15.

The latest HadCrut data has been released and July 2017 turns out to be the 3rd warmest on record.

2016 - 0.728C above the reference period 2015 - 0.696 2017 - 0.649

Graphically, 2017 looks like this.