Locally we have had a warm summer. Consistenly above average temperatures but no records but what I am referring to when I talk of Global temperatures is the averages from all over the globe.
So a quick look for a link to some of the comments I have heard on radio about this year being warmer right through on a global perspective found this from NASA http://climateprogress.org/2010/06/03/nasa-giss-james-hansen-study-global-warming-record-hottest-yea... where the comment is
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NASA makes it official: We have set the 12-month record, just as CP pointed a few weeks ago (see “NASA: Easily the hottest April — and hottest Jan-April — in temperature record“) — and that is all the more powerful evidence of human-caused warming “because it occurs when the recent minimum of solar irradiance is having its maximum cooling effect,” as the paper notes. This didn’t make a lot of news — see this tiny Bloomberg story — nothing compared to all the nonsensical stories about global cooling.
But will 2010 actually set the record for the hottest calendar year? NASA explains:
It is likely that global temperature for calendar year 2010 will exceed the 2005 record, but that is not certain if a deep La Nina develops quickly.
http://climateprogress.org/2010/05/16/nasa-easily-the-hottest-january-and-hottest-jan-april-in-tempe...
where they comment on 2010 being the warmest so far and that the earth just set a new record for the 12 month running average. Just barely beat the old record BUT that old record was from 2007.
The links I am finding about the 'global cooling' are links that are "debunking the myth about global cooling"
They appear to be from reputable sites and several reference people who claim the trend is to cooler and point out that the trend is still higher although lately it has not risen as fast as the previous years. Rising at only 0.007C degrees per year instead of 0.515 degrees in 1998. But the trend is still up.
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climatechange/policymakers/policy/slowdown.html