I think I heard Rush or some talkshow host say that after the screw up, by Hansen of NASA, of substituting September’s temperatures twice when October’s were’nt available, that 2008 will be the 78th warmest year on record.
Climate change threat to alpine ski resorts - May 2008
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/3342553/Climate-change-threat-to-alpine-ski-resorts.html
The Alps have best snow conditions ‘in a generation’-19 Dec 2008
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/snowandski/3851179/The-Alps-have-best-snow-conditions-in-a-generation.html#comments