Since 1930, GHCN HCN thermometers show that US maximum temperatures have dropped almost 1.5 degrees. The four coldest years have all occurred since the end of the 1970s ice age scare. 
ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/hcn/
The warm temperatures of 2012 do not appear to be the new normal, except in the mind of the superstitious.
Every idiot knows that rapid cooling is totally consistent with a warming planet.