Ken Nelson

Drudge has this headline:

and I wondered… why 14th, and why of 115 years?  Why not 10th in last 100, or coldest in 25?

The Drudge link goes here http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/na.html

And I now see why that is used. They have data for 115 years, and this was the 14th coldest of the time they have records for. Okay, that makes sense now.

Using the sites handy chart generator I made this chart:

Which leads me to the more conventional view that Dec 2009 was the coldest in a decade.