At first I thought this was a mistake, a quirk, but no there seems to have
been a remarkable plunge in the near surface temperature record
http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutem....csh?amsutemps

It is now lower for the 28th December 2010 than at any time since 1998; that
is some drop that I've seen no one else predict bar Joe who has been
proclaiming this would happen since this time last year. Surely he deserves
some praise and not the petty treatment he gets here on many an occasion.