To put current global temperatures into the perspective of that framework, Climate Central has been reanalyzing the NASA and NOAA data. (scientificamerican.com)
All this leaves the IPCC almost entirely dependent on CO2 for the explanation of current global temperatures as in Fig 2.23. (notrickszone.com)
Re: # 31, «A major question is whether current global temperatures are warmer than the Medieval Warm Period — and whether that event was global or regional. (realclimate.org)