Don't waste your time. "Climate skeptics" website operated by a conservative non-profit.

For details: http://mediamatters.org/research/2012/12/27/climate-change-m.... Climate change is a huge problem. The deniers and skeptics make it difficult for real scientists to study the problem and make rational recommendations to the governments and public.

"Climate change is a huge problem."

That's exactly the point, it is not a proven "huge problem". This "hottest year" is a statistical tie with previous years, including 1998. 2014 supposedly won the crown by 0.01 deg C, what are the error bars on that measurement again? It is, if anything, a statistical tie.

As to "The deniers and skeptics make it difficult for real scientists to study the problem", how so? The scientists are receiving full funding, and "studying the problem" to their hearts content. I would fully support a new satellite using state of the art technology to measure surface temperatures - what we need is ground truth instead of models.

Note that in fact current satellite measurements do not support this being the "hottest year on record".

We'll see where things go from here, but I'm betting that lower solar output and cloud activity as Cycle 24 winds down will result in descending temperatures. We'll see over the next 10-15 years.

Tied for hottest year still counts.

No meaningful increase for 18 years despite record CO2 levels well over the touted "350 PPM" limit "still counts"?

Do remember that this was a marginal El Niño year...it just didn't quite make the grade to be an "official" El Niño.