‘2012 was the 11th warmest year GLOBALLY on their 34-year-long record, rather close to the median’ according to RSS AMSU satellite data — Therefore warmists focus on 1.6% of the globe
'Because the global mean temperature in 2012 (and most of the previous years) looked so unspectacular, the media focused on a different quantity. 2012 was warmest year in (continental) U.S. on record...Look at other regions such as Europe or Asia or Australia or... even the notorious Arctic... and you will see that 2012 wasn't spectacular as far as its temperature went'