This also in. This week was warmer than last week. Ergo, no winter. “Science” is fun!
The British Met Office had this to say about this kind of “misleading” coverage…
mediamatters.org/research/2012/10/15/fox-falls-for-tabloid-science/190630

As we’ve stressed before, choosing a starting or end point on short-term scales can be very misleading. Climate change can only be detected from multi-decadal timescales due to the inherent variability in the climate system. If you use a longer period from HadCRUT4 the trend looks very different. For example, 1979 to 2011 shows 0.16°C/decade (or 0.15°C/decade in the NCDC dataset, 0.16°C/decade in GISS). Looking at successive decades over this period, each decade was warmer than the previous – so the 1990s were warmer than the 1980s, and the 2000s were warmer than both. Eight of the top ten warmest years have occurred in the last decade.
Over the last 140 years global surface temperatures have risen by about 0.8ºC. However, within this record there have been several periods lasting a decade or more during which temperatures have risen very slowly or cooled. The current period of reduced warming is not unprecedented and 15 year long periods are not unusual.

Q: What causes me to wonder is why this is not front page news.
A: Journalistic integrity
It’s also a ruse that is not new. Here’s the AP in 2009…
http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-205_162-5423035.html

Have you heard that the world is now cooling instead of warming? You may have seen some news reports on the Internet or heard about it from a provocative new book.
Only one problem: It’s not true, according to an analysis of the numbers done by several independent statisticians for The Associated Press.
The case that the Earth might be cooling partly stems from recent weather. Last year was cooler than previous years. It’s been a while since the super-hot years of 1998 and 2005. So is this a longer climate trend or just weather’s normal ups and downs?
In a blind test, the AP gave temperature data to four independent statisticians and asked them to look for trends, without telling them what the numbers represented. The experts found no true temperature declines over time.
“If you look at the data and sort of cherry-pick a micro-trend within a bigger trend, that technique is particularly suspect,” said John Grego, a professor of statistics at the University of South Carolina.

But I suppose those statisticians were worried about their research grants. But I’m sure we’ll see it again next year and the year after that (wonder why that is?).

“Refuted:
http://www.livescience.com/24006-did-global-warming-stop-1997.html“
Hardly. It’s just claiming cherry picking of data. Kind of like the warming alarmists have done.