This winter is not that cold and considering the energy costs and the economy, it is not that bad.
Not sure about any trends.

This is the first article I have seen providing a good discussion in the media. Both the WMO information and Arno's comments are excellent and I printed copies of each so I can read and digest their information.

There is very much data from major projects such as ice coring ing Greenland. The data show climate fluccuations for thousands of years which suggest the earth is now in a warming trend.
Arno, what is the source of your information?

Unfortunately I'm starting to see see "Climate Change" being capitalized on [...]

Read the full comment as a market tool for numerous companies using those words. Yes, we have and are pumping pollutants into the atmosphere just as the recent spate of volcanic eruptions- warming trends. In the 1880s Krakatoa blocked sunlight for several years- a cooling trend.

For me the real issue is what can we do now to reduce the impact of global warming on the human populations.

Thought provoking!!!!!!

"The 2010 data confirm the Earth’s significant long-term warming trend," said WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud. "The 10 warmest years on record have all occurred since 1998." That statement is wrong. It does not follow from the run of warm years that a warming trend exists. The reason that the first decade of the twenty-first century is warmest is that we did have a global warming spurt, starting in 1998. In four years global temperature rose by a third of a degree and then stopped. A third of a degree is fully half of what has been attributed to the entire [...]

Read the full comment twentieth century and that is why the beginning of our century is unusually warm.This is also the only warming within the last thirty one years of satellite temperature measurements that is real. Its cause was oceanic, not greenhouse. The super El Nino of 1998 brought over a huge amount of warm water from the Western Pacific which lingered near South America and and caused the warming. Prior to 1998 global temperature had been oscillating, up and down by half a degree, for twenty years but there was no rise until the super El Nino arrived. But that is the same period that James Hansen said was the start of AGW - anthropogenic global warming. On temperature charts it appears as "late twentieth century warming." Well, satellite records prove that it does not exist and charts that show it are cooked - as in falsified. The short spurt of warming that did exist started with 1998 and was followed by a warm but stable temperature platform that lasted for six years. I call it the twenty-first century high. While temperature did not increase the carbon dioxide kept on going up and with it all the temperature predictions from IPCC climate modelers. And then it was followed by a La Nina cooling in 2008. Not one of these climate models had predicted that and they had no idea what hit them. This La Nina signified resumption of the oscillatory climate we had before 1998. By now it has been followed by the El Nino of 2010 and the next La Nina is already well under way. Expect these oscillations for the foreseeable future, for that is what our normal climate is like. And do not expect any catastrophic warming that these model-makers are still trying to sell. The oscillations are part of the ENSO system that has existed since the Isthmus of Panama rose from the sea and can be found on all temperature charts if some idiot did not average them out of existence. This still leaves Arctic warming which is very real but likewise not the work of carbon dioxide we exhale. It started suddenly at the beginning of the twentieth century, paused in mid-century,then resumed and is still going strong. Its cause is warm water carried north by ocean currents and it started when a rearrangement of the North Atlantic current system set warm currents, specifically including the Gulf Stream, unto their present northerly courses.