Only .7 degrees fahrenheit about 20th century average last year vs population explosion out west?

The NOAA headline is very misleading and their gamesmanship with percent increases and graphical displays do not portray the minimal increases over the past century. Fortunagely, digging into the raw data is tranquilizing unless you yearn for central government control of the economy.

Link: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/national-climate-201912#:~:text=the%20average%20contiguous%20U.S.%20temperature,the%20coolest%20year%20since%202014.