Should a record setting year or string of them be cause for alarm? Personally I don't think so. - Anthony Watts

Often we lose sight of our place in the universe, some never knew at all just how miniscule we humans are compared to everything else.

Why would a committee award such a prestigious prize right on the heels of his documentary [An Inconvenient Truth] being proven inaccurate and prone to exaggerations?

That the climate has always changed. It has never been static. In the past it has seen extremes hotter and colder than what we experience today. So change is normal.