Mitch, I got a laugh out of this:
While this year’s El Nino is not as strong as it was in 1997 and 1998, its combination with the steady increase of temperatures due to global warming from human activity may be enough to break the Earth’s temperature record, said Phil Jones, the director of the Climatic Research unit at the University of East Anglia.
Good ol’ East Anglia. When you care enough to hunt all over the world for that “just right” quote, East Anglia’s there.