I hope this isn't too much of a necro, but I saw this recently and it ties in with this thread:
Basically the Met office in the UK has re-forecast it's temperature predictions in the UK as the two graphs below show:
It goes to the point I was making before (somewhere in the depths of this thread) it's happening BUT we need more information and better models before you can sell everyone on it because the reality isn't living up to the horror stories we've been sold.
I'm sure it's part media hype, people looking for headlines and misreading reports but if there's a job to educate people, it's not happening.