Climate Change Still a Problem

With snowpacalypse and snowmageddon and stupid tweets from Sen Jim DeMint (R-SC) like this, It's going to keep snowing in DC until Al Gore cries "uncle" here's some info from last month on the difference between climate and weather:

First, a nine minute video:



Then there's more detail in this 2009 year end summary by James Hansen and others, If It’s That Warm, How Come It’s So Damned Cold?. it starts...

"The past year, 2009, tied as the second warmest year in the 130 years of global instrumental temperature records, in the surface temperature analysis of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). The Southern Hemisphere set a record as the warmest year for that half of the world. Global mean temperature, as shown in Figure 1a, was 0.57°C (1.0°F) warmer than climatology (the 1951-1980 base period). Southern Hemisphere mean temperature, as shown in Figure 1b, was 0.49°C (0.88°F) warmer than in the period of climatology."

"The global record warm year, in the period of near-global instrumental measurements (since the late 1800s), was 2005."