During the last month the following 3 pieces of information were released concerning climate change. It is likely that you heard about only of them reported on in the news paper or on TV. Guess which one.
The year 2012 was the warmest year on record (since 1895) for the lower 48 states of the United States.
According to satellite temperature measures 2012 was only the 9th warmest year globally since 1979, when satellite record keeping began.
The British Met Office, the temperature record keeper and forecaster of choice for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has flat lined its prediction of warming for the next 5 years, extending out the current period of 15 years of no global warming (Met office data) to 20 years.