NASA: First half of 2010 breaks the thermometer — despite "recent minimum of solar irradiance"

Following fast on the heels of the hottest Jan-May — and spring — in the temperature record, it's also the hottest Jan-June on record in the NASA dataset [click on figure to enlarge:].

It's all the more powerful evidence of human-caused warming "because it occurs when the recent minimum of solar irradiance is having its maximum cooling effect," as a recent NASA paper notes.

Software engineer (and former machinist mate in the US Navy) Timothy Chase put together a spreadsheet using the data...