The UAH team has now incorporated a diurnal cycle correction from direct satellite readings of the latest, high precision satellite instruments, into the past 26 years of satellite climate data and will provide that updated dataset to the public today. A set of global maps showing 26-year climate trends in both the corrected and uncorrected datasets is available on-line at: http://climate.uah.edu/

"While some people might question the importance of a correction that changes the long term trend by only 0.035 C per decade, for us the most important thing is to produce a climate dataset that is as accurate and reliable as humanly possible," Christy said. "Roy and I would argue that the political debate over climate issues should always be driven by the data, not the other way around."

"It is fairly obvious that some portion of this warming is probably due to human influences," said Spencer. "What isn't clear is how much or which influences."
http://urnet.uah.edu/tempnews/climate.html

" "New observations and climate model data confirm recent warming of the tropical atmosphere" - "For the first time, new climate observations and computer models provide a consistent picture of recent warming of the tropical atmosphere." (DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

Well, two out of three ain't bad.
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Santer et al prefer to believe the world is wrong rather than that their models fail to adequately capture its behaviour. Right... A maybe, a perhaps and an eye-roller. Like we said, two out of three ain't bad.

Update: The above set of papers seems to be eliciting considerable excitement with claims that scepticism regarding climate catastrophe has evaporated, been destroyed, disproved, etc., etc.. Such claimants might want to settle down and actually read the papers. "
http://www.junkscience.com/index.html

So, basically nothing new here- the correction regarding the satellite data is something I believe read about month or so ago- and I probably posted it here if anyone wants to bother to check. The data has been further confirmed, so I'm not saying this isn't "news". But it is misrepresented- I guess Nature needs to hype it to sell their rag.