The oceans beneath delay the warming of the surface waters due to thermal inertia. (realclimate.org)
What climate scientists say is that a new Maunder minimum like period would only delay the warming by a decade or so. (science.slashdot.org)
The increase of effective heat capacity, in turn, results in the reduction of the rate of increase in surface temperature, reducing and delaying the warming as shown by Hoffert et al (1980) and Hansen et al. (1984).» (skepticalscience.com)