UPDATES on the Scariest Graphs you will ever see (from Remote Sensing Systems: MSU and AMSU channels), see especially Figure 8 at the link provided

From Remote Sensing Systems:

Figure 3. Color coded map of decadal trends in MSU channel TLT (1979 - 2010). Data poleward of 82.5° North and 70° South, as well as areas with land or ice elevations above 3000 meters, are not available and are shown in white.

Figure 4. Color coded map of decadal trends in MSU/AMSU channel TMT (1979 - 2010). Data poleward of 82.5° are not available and are shown in white.

Figure 5. Color coded map of decadal trends in MSU/AMSU channel TTS (1987 - 2010). Data poleward of 82.5° are not available and are shown in white. This channel is affected by both tropospheric warming, and stratospheric cooling.

Figure 6. Color coded map of decadal trends in MSU/AMSU channel TLS (1979 - 2010). Data poleward of 82.5° are not available and are shown in white. This channel is dominated by stratospheric cooling.

Ch. TLT Ch. TMT Ch. TTS Ch. TLS

Figure 7. Global, monthly time series of brightness temperature anomaly for channels TLT, TMT, TTS, and TLS. For Channel TLT (Lower Troposphere) and Channel TMT (Middle Troposphere), the anomaly time series is dominated by ENSO events and slow tropospheric warming. The three primary El Niños during the past 20 years are clearly evident as peaks in the time series occurring during 1982-83, 1987-88, and 1997-98, with the most recent one being the largest. Channel TLS (Lower Stratosphere) is dominated by stratospheric cooling, punctuated by dramatic warming events caused by the eruptions of El Chichon (1982) and Mt Pinatubo (1991). Channel TTS (Troposhere / Stratosphere) appears to be a mixture of both effects.

Figure 8.  http://www.ssmi.com/msu/msu_data_description.html

Also, for more not so fun graphics where you can look at the entire globe and compare years:

http://www.ssmi.com/msu/msu_data_monthly.html