Recognizing the writing on the wall, deniers have started a preliminary round of pushback against the increasing likelihood that 2014 will be the hottest year on record. Dr. Spencer, for example, has a blog post stating that it won't be the warmest year on record, so long as you ignore the oceans and all our thermometers, only consider the satellite record, and ignore the fact that the satellite record undersamples the Arctic where it's warmed the most. Finally he would probably also want you to ignore the numerous past errors in his satellite research which have been corrected time after time.
Eager to do damage control, the Competitive Enterprise Institute sent out a fundraising email based on Spencer's post, while Heartland's Climate Change Weekly email featured it as their lead story.
This is understandable, as deniers will have a particularly difficult time convincing the public that there's "no warming" after the hottest year on record. DeSmog UK even asked the leader of the UK's denier organization, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), if this record undercuts the group's recent report, which claims that warming has stopped. GWPF replied with: "No comment."