[chipengineer]

There is some very good discussion of recent temperature data and projections here that is still skeptical, but less misleading:
http://rankexploits.com/musings/2008/real-climate-tries-to-spin-pielke-a-curious-lesson-2/

[RogerFGay]

I've seen that. I didn't take it upon myself in this article to critique the letter in the way that you suggest. As you know, there's always another way, another wording, another .... well, I've been writing for a long time; there's no way to be perfect in everyone's eyes and typically no way to write anything that even the author thinks is perfect ... there's always another option to consider.

Now that I can talk openly, I actually don't think the letter is flawed. Perhaps we can assume that the people receiving the data have seen all the other representations, and are quite familiar with them. The letter comments on recent observations and provides a graph of them - demonstrating that predictions about what is supposed to happen, according to IPCC models, is not actually happening.

So, it appears to be right on target.