Apparently, the planet is getting colder because it's getting warmer.
Doesn't make that much sense to me, either. Actually, it sounds like they're trying to cover their tracks. Makes sense in the wake of Climategate where it was found that climate scientists (presumably in a bid to save their well-paying jobS) were trying to come up with some funky math to justify why the climate had not gotten warmer in the past decade.
It wasn't that long ago that 2010 was predicted as the year when the climate would start to cataclysmically heat up. They're instead scratching their butts because it's one of the coldest years on record.
Give it another decade or two, and the neo-communists (almost all of the intelligentsia which used to be reds in the 1980s are now greens) will be predicting dire man-made global cooling unless the world acts quickly enough to establish a global eco-socialism.