To me, "click bait" implies that the article is less interesting than the headline, especially when the headline is misleading. That's not the case here. The headline is a simple fact, and the context justifies it.

As the article points out, this "blip" is less than another data point two years ago. At some point you have to stop pretending you don't see a pattern.

We don't need green washing vanity projects. We need a national and global plan to reduce fossil fuel use. Fast. Faster than it would have been if we'd started decades ago, when both theory and data were already evident, and people started dismissing everything as a "blip" rather than do something.

We can't get anything done while large numbers of people keep denying the basic reality of the data and the basic chemistry and physics that explains it.