Flashback--Hansen on touting individual years as hottest: 'As far as I remember, we have always discouraged that as being somewhat nonsensical'

2007:  Quarter-Degree Fix Fuels Climate Fight - New York Times

[Revkin] Dr. Hansen and his team note that they rarely, if ever, discuss individual years, particularly regional findings like those for the United States (the lower 48 are only 2 percent of the planet’s surface). “In general I think that we want to avoid going into more and more detail about ranking of individual years,” he said in an e-mail message. “As far as I remember, we have always discouraged that as being somewhat nonsensical.”
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Dr. Lawrimore, Dr. Hansen and other experts said that trends are far more important than particular years, and the recent widespread warming trend has been clear — and very distinct from the regional hot spell that drove up United States temperatures in the 1930s.  [Via Marc Morano]