December temperature data is now in the National Climatic Data Center database, Watts Up With That spots a cooling trend.

The WattsUpWithThat comment section already sports complaints that the graph above is generated by beginning in the very hot year of 1998 — hence the trend is bogus. That would be wrong to do, wouldn't it — carefully selecting when to start tracking temperature trends?

Or better yet, the could always strike up the propaganda band.