Let’s not confuse people.
The article is accurate.
The thirteen warmest average temperatures FOR THE EARTH have occurred since 1990.
Since when? I find it a bit curious when claims are made about records set and records broken.
According to the graph in ETL's post 23, the earth has been a lot hotter over the past 500 million years, and a lot cooler.
Using a reference of daily climate records that go back a piddling few hundred years to take a reading on the earth's "normal" setting, is the equivalent of arguing how many angels fit on the head of a pin.
120,000 years is a gnat's blink in time, relatively speaking, on a planet where ice caps have frozen and thawed countless times over the past hundreds of millions of years. In that past 120,000 years alone -- a gnat's blink -- Florida has been twice as big, and twice as small, as it is now because of varying sea levels. Someday, Tampa and Miami will be underwater again, for about the zillionth time, and there's not a damned thing we can do about it.
Likewise, someday the English Channel will be walkable again, and there's not a damned thing we can do to stop it. WE CAN ONLY ADAPT TO IT.
Oh, the global warming cheerleader is here! Lets stand up everybody, he knows it all!