From NASA today we find out:

NASA’s latest global surface temperature analysis confirms the long-term trend of the earth’s gradual warming. “Even with the cooling effects of a strong La Niña influence and low solar activity for the past several years, 2011 was one of the 10 warmest years on record,” said NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) director James Hansen. 2011’s global average surface temperature was 0.51ºC warmer than in the period 1951-1980, the mid-20th century baseline GISS used. It continued the trend in which nine of the 10 warmest years occurred since 2000.

But that whole climate change thing is a bunch of bunk. Nothing to see here, move along . . .