Not Spaghetti

Joe Romm has a post up on this, pointing out that 0.57 which is the average so far is hotter than 1998 and 2002 in the GISS record (putting 2009 so far tied with 2007 for second hottest year ever). A December as warm as October and November have been will clearly put 2009 in second spot.

Now, as Scott Mandia notes in the comments on Joe's post, one year doesn't prove anything. The interesting thing to me is that we have on record, from 2 years ago, the predictions of the "cooling" crowd that were very far off for 2008, and from whom you would expect 2009 to be even cooler, if we really are cooling. And on the other hand we have on record, from 2 years ago, my prediction based on continued warming. Only one of those is right. Who are you going to trust going forward, the "coolers", or the people who have time and time again been shown to be right?