July 6, 2012: Six-year-old Alexander Merrill of Sioux Falls,
S.D., cools off in a cloud of mist at the Henry Doorly Zoo in
Omaha, Neb., as temperatures reached triple digits.AP Photo/Nati
Harnik Climate blogger Steven Goddard, who in the past helped
program government climate models, has put together a graph to
show how the adjustment warmed the most recent years and cooled
past years.Steven Goddard Aug. 16, 2012: Dust is carried by the
wind behind a combine harvesting corn in a field near Coy, Ark.,
following a brutal combination of a widespread drought and a
mostly absent winter that pushed the average annual U.S.
temperature last year up.AP Photo/Danny Johnston July 6, 2012:
Timmy Benson wears a wet towel on his head as he cools off in a
fountain set up outside Busch Stadium before a Cardinals /
Marlins baseball game in St. Louis.AP Photo/Jeff Roberson 2012
was a scorcher, but was it the warmest year ever? A report
released this week by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Agency (NOAA) called it "the warm