However, "Globally, last month was the warmest January ever as measured by RSS's satellite, and and the 4th warmest month in their records -- the warmest since May 1998."
Maybe February will come out different. However, as things stand we are witnessing some bizarre realities about the climate: even though globally we are experiencing warmest temperatures on record, locally we are getting snowed in.
Now we know why it is called global warming as opposed to local warming.
Update:
Stan pointed out how the Daily Show had a pretty convincing graph that disproves the idea the earth is warming. This is from a large data-set taken over several months so it should really carry some weight in the global warming debate:
