No, it wasn't. I didn't have to plug in my air conditioner ONCE in the summer of 2014.
In my area, this January has been the SECOND January in a row that the AVERAGE temperature has been TEN FRACKING DEGREES below normal.
All I can conclude from the available evidence is that "NASA scientists" are paycheck whores.
AS a matter of fact, I'm beginning to suspect that a WHOLE LOT of "scientists" are paycheck whores, considering that the universities have been taken over by the Left...
The places that they tout as having warmed are little pockets of ocean. This in turn is due to a lull in ocean currents which would otherwise be mixing cold water with the warm. Context means so much.