Wes,
I can't buy those links. The NOAA states '"near Average". By what they were stating 6 months ago, we were a decade off of heat death.
I could easily post just as many links which state the contrary, and how the NOAA data is tainted.
This reminds me of earnings estimate analysts, and their lack of changing reports to prevent their ego from looking tarnish.
This was mainly to show Gore, who has ridden a wave of popularity based on voodoo science in order to elicit a popular fervor which makes him money. His platform is bogus.
There used to be access to Global monitors to gauge global temperatures, but strangely access was removed about six months ago, maybe a year ago.
www.junkscience.com had historical and real time data which 'claimed' the cooling trend.