America's Hottest Year On Record And A Cooler Future

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Climate: 2012 was the hottest year on record in the U.S. It's a big story that provides the media with leverage to claim that the evidence that man's activities are heating the planet keeps piling up. But does it?

While the American media were focused on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration report that says the lower 48 went through the warmest year on record in 2012, the Met Office in Britain was making an admission that it surely didn't want to:

"The latest decadal prediction suggests that global temperatures over the next five years are likely to be a little lower than predicted from the previous prediction."

The predicted increase from 2013 through 2017 is 0.43 degree Celsius above the 1971-2000 mean, while a previous projection said the temperature would increase 0.54 degree from 2012 through 2016.

Which means it will be "cooler" than expected, if we might use a word that the alarmists dread.

The Met Office blames the smaller increase on "natural variability." Of course. When it turns out to be not as hot as liberals say it will be, it's due to nature. When the alarmists can find any cases of higher temperatures, they always blame them on man's carbon dioxide emissions.