The Global Hawk, NASA's new remote-controlled airplane, banks for a landing over Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base in California at the end of a test flight on October 23, 2009.
2010 was the 4th warmest summer in the 131-year-temperature record. Unusually warm summers in the U.S. and Europe created the impression of global warming run amuck, but extrapolating global trends based on one or two regions can be misleading.