One must travel to Seattle to be globally warmed

It seems as if the justification for New York's absence of a summer this year is that all the warming went to Seattle:
"William D. Solecki, a geography professor at Hunter College of the City University of New York and co-chairman of a mayoral panel on climate change, warned that this summer’s unusually mild temperatures should not buoy global warming skeptics.
“Ask them to visit Seattle,” he said, where a record temperature of 103 was recorded on Wednesday. "

Anyone else (us skeptics) would ask why the Pacific Northwest is warm and conclude that the El Nino phenomenon is the cause and also conclude that the earth is cooling now due to decreased sunspot activity. Has anyone noticed that their case now rests on so called record temperatures? Remember one of my previous posts where I addressed this? These flat-earthers seem to not remember record trends which are much more significant when developing averages and predictions.

Here's another quote that made me chuckle:
"Scientists believe the shift is connected with the temperature of the oceans and their pattern of heating and cooling the atmosphere but, Mr. Gadomski said, “our understanding of how a persistent pattern locks in isn’t very good.”


For anyone interested in the article here it is: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/01/nyregion/01hot.html?_r=3&hp