Attempting to sell global warming using anecdotes

See Seth Borenstein's typically alarmist AP article here.

One of my favorite claims is this one:

2007 seemed to be the year that climate change shook the thermometers...

Again, if you actually look at the global RSS temperature data, 2007 absolutely did NOT "shake the thermometers":



Note that Borenstein carefully picks only anecdotes that appear to support his alarmist case, while studiously avoiding mention of inconvenient stuff like the "disappointing" 2007 hurricane season, an exceptionally cold winter in the Southern Hemisphere, deaths caused by cold weather in India, plenty of snow at ski resorts, record Antarctic sea ice extent, record Arctic ice re-freezing, "biting cold" at global warming protests, etc etc.
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Note also that Borenstein has subtly changed his tune regarding the Northwest Passage.

In the above article, he writes:

The Northwest Passage was the most navigable it had been in modern times.

On December 12, his claim was:

Another first: the Northwest Passage was open to navigation.