I don't have much time to spend on it, but I was curious, so I did a little googling on bing. Note that I'm not making any sweeping claims about climate change, I'm just responding to this particular graph. I found this site with this graph: .

I guess maybe that's the data behind the global anomaly in the top level post.

To put it mildly, I'm suspicious of that last data point. I suspect an instrument malfunction. Check back in 6 months, and if it hasn't been corrected, then I'll start worrying.