Last Sunday February 15 I wrote a post here on why NASA was manipulating temperature date buy making the past colder and the present warmer.  Today right on clue The Huffingtonpost wrote two posts on this very subject.

Despite The Recent Snow, The U.S. Has Actually Been Having An Unusually Warm Winter

UN Negotiators Agree On Early Draft Of Climate Deal For Upcoming Paris Conference

Why would they have done this only a few days after the NASA data release, it takes time to write these posts and so the most likely reason is they were ready for this story before the NASA data was released.

The last part of what I wrote in that post is that this data manipulation will continue until the Paris UN Climate conference building up to a crescendo in October / November just in time for the conference. I will post what the NASA numbers will be before the next data release in mid March.

Here is the graphic from what I posted in NASS-GISS Date Manipulation is fact not speculation V2 a few days ago on this subject.