Mike McNally: “In February of this year a raft of data from the leading monitoring centers showed that average global temperatures had fallen by around 0.65º C…”
The “raft of data” does not in fact link to “leading monitoring centers”, rather to a blog which displays a graph captioned: “World Temperatures according to the Hadley Center for Climate Prediction. Note the steep drop over the last year.”
This graph is in turn sourced from yet another blog, which has no connection with the original data used to create the graph and apparently sourced from The Met Office Hadley Centre in the UK, one of the four main sources for climate data. So what does the Hadley Centre have to say about 2007?
“The provisional global figure, using data from January to November, currently places 2007 as the seventh warmest on record since 1850.”
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/2007/pr20071213.html
The other six years in order are: 1998, 2005, 2003, 2002, 2004, 2006. In addition, the centre says that “…the top 11 warmest years all occur in the last 13 years”.
In other words, the atmosphere has not ‘cooled’. Far from it. It has reached the highest recorded levels and shows no signs of falling back.
Beginning with the title, this article is a hack job, linked to like-minded hack jobs. It has little connection to the data as detailed on the sites of the organisations that are actually doing climate science.
