Meanwhile, back in reality...
2012 hottest year on record
in contiguous U.S., NOAA says
Temperatures
in the contiguous United States last year were the hottest in more than a century of record-keeping, shattering the mark set in 1998 by a wide margin, the federal government announced Tuesday.
2012 hottest year on record in contiguous U.S., NOAA says - Washington Post
Not according to Hansen (who PROVIDES the data to NOAA I might add). According to him 2012 was the 9th warmest....really, you should at least make an attempt to stay abreast of things.
"Summary.
Global surface temperature in 2012 was +0.56°C (1°F) warmer than the 1951-1980 base period average, despite much of the year being affected by a strong La Nina.
Global temperature thus continues at a high level that is sufficient to cause a substantial increase in the frequency of extreme warm anomalies. The 5-year mean
global temperature has been flat for a decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slowdown in the growth rate of the net climate forcing.
An update through 2012 of our
global analysis1 (Fig. 1) reveals 2012 as having practically the same temperature as 2011, significantly lower than the maximum reached in 2010. These
short-term global fluctuations are associated principally with natural oscillations of tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures summarized in the Nino index in the lower part of the figure.
2012 is nominally the 9th warmest year, but it is indistinguishable in rank with several other years, as shown by the error estimate."
http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2013/20130115_Temperature2012.pdf