This post is by Lisa Moore, Ph.D., a scientist in the Climate and Air program at Environmental Defense.
January 2008 was the coldest month in several years, according to the scientific groups that track global temperature. Is it true, as DailyTech concludes, that January’s cold "wipes out a century of warming"? Has global warming stopped?
In a word, no. A single month does not make for a climate trend. Let’s look at the data.
Source: Raw data from the U.K.’s Met Office Hadley Centre (see description of data).