interesting that they can claim to know the temp for the full year when the year isnt over and they dont have December's data yet.
Of course that is explained in the emails from CRU
http://www.eastangliaemails.com/emai...=848679780.txt
I wish they wouldnt put quotes around skeptics.
The choosing of 1998 as a point for the cooling is made by the climate scientists and Nasa not the skeptics. 1998 was proclaimed the warmest on record and only one year since then has passed it with most years being cooler than the one before.
this can be found by looking at Nasa/GISS annual summations for 2004 onward.
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20070208/
Its funny that they mention HadCrut3 matches this Nasa data. CRU took it down a few days ago but you can still check it with googles cache of the page. Nasa actually has a spike in January of 07 that i havent found an explanation of yet