"Need I go on?"
Well frankly ... yes ! Why post multiple links to the same dodgy article Sandy ? There has been a huge drop in temperatures globally in 2007/08 that has been measured by ALL the primary agencies who tabulate such data (the greatest movement of temperature either up or down ever recorded in a single year). Why do you not want to believe them or the anecdotal evidence from around the worlds supporting thier observations ?
Sorry to ruin the fun, but an ice age cometh | The Australian
Disconcerting as it may be to true believers in global warming, the average temperature on Earth has remained steady or slowly declined during the past decade, despite the continued increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, and now the global temperature is falling precipitously.
All four agencies that track Earth's temperature (the Hadley Climate Research Unit in Britain, the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, the Christy group at the University of Alabama, and Remote Sensing Systems Inc in California) report that it cooled by about 0.7C in 2007. This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record and it puts us back where we were in 1930. If the temperature does not soon recover, we will have to conclude that global warming is over.
There is also plenty of anecdotal evidence that 2007 was exceptionally cold. It snowed in Baghdad for the first time in centuries, the winter in China was simply terrible and the extent of Antarctic sea ice in the austral winter was the greatest on record since James Cook discovered the place in 1770.
A global 0.7C drop in ONE year !! Thats more than the claimed 0.6C rise for the entire 20th century by the global warming alarmists
More hard data on recent cooling trends can be found here too...... this time (amazingly) from those much vaunted UN experts !!.
No Global Warming Since 1998 As Planet Cools Off