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Very warm 2008 makes this the hottest decade in recorded history by far*
Climate Progress — ... ). Global warming is accelerating , as predicted . http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.A.lrg.gif The UK’s Guardian , on the other hand, believes the big climate story is “ 2008 will be coolest year of the decade *.” The deniers have begun pushing this meme, as Greenfyre notes ...

Monbiot: Cyberspace has buried its head in a cesspit of climate change gibberish
Climate Progress — ... is about the very same Guardian piece I critiqued, “ 2008 will be coolest year of the decade .” Interestingly, Monbiot’s bitter lament is not on the article, but on the comments : We all create our own reality, and shut out the voices we do not want to hear. But there is no issue we are less willing to entertain than man-made ...

How hot was 2008?
Environment — ... than the average for the years 1990 to 1999. Overall, this year was the 10th warmest since such measurements began in 1850. The only years in the 20th century that were hotter were 1998 and 1997. The Guardian quotes Oxford professor Alan Myles. “For Dickens this would have been an extremely warm year ,” he told the British daily. The Guardian notes that, without human-caused global warming, the odds of getting a year as hot as 2008 are 1 in 100. Under today’s climactic conditions, the odds are 1 in 10. NASA, which also measures global surface temperatures, ...

Earth to Jacoby: I Got Your Global Warming Right Here
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science — ... to be 2005 (in GISTEMP) or either 2005 or 2001 (in HadCRUT3v). This last decade is still the warmest decade in the record, and the top 8 or 10 years (depending on the data source) are all in the last 10 years!” Jacoby’s complaint that the mainstream media has largely ignored the “recent cold phenomena” is hogwash, of course. As Joe and others have noted, it has actually been quite the contrary, with even The New York Times and The Guardian reporting on the “unprecedented” cooling. He ends the ...