Are you claiming that NOAA didn't make that declaration?
You're the one claiming that 62.3 is not greater than 62, so you're the one who needs to explain your very peculiar reasoning. I'm the one pointing out that, just as NASA did, you have to take into the difference in baselines of 4.3F. 58.0 + 4.3 = 62.3, which is greater than 62.0. Hence, warming.
For those unfamiliar with the case ...
In 1997, NOAA was using one way of processing of station data to get a global temperature average. After the paper (Jones et al. 1999) demonstrated a better method, they switched to a that method, one that put more weighting on colder areas. Hence, the calculated "average global temperature" went down, by about 4.3F. Different baselines. (Which also destroys the denier conspiracy theory that scientists were inflating temperatures, given that they deflated the temperatures.)
See? Right in black and white here. "Please note The estimate for the baseline global temperature use in this study differed, and was warmer than, the baseline (Jones et al. 1999) used currently. This report has been superseded by subsequent analysis. However, as with all climate monitoring reports, it is left online as it was written at the time."
Westwall is taking the more modern temperatures from the colder baseline, comparing them to older temperatures from the warmer baseline, and claiming it proves the past was warmer. Other denier propagandists have stopped using that sleaze tactic, because it instantly reveals how the person using it is peddling a very obvious fraud.