From our friends at the [US] NOAA, we have the above graph of temperature anomalies for last month.
A few observations, starting with the good news:
- Most of Russia was cold. Given all the permafrost there and the observations we’ve seen of increased methane emissions from that part of the world, colder is better.
- Sorry, that’s all the good news I could find in this map.
As for the bad news:
- Most of the US was colder, which means not only more fossil fuel use, with the economic and environmental impacts that implies, but much more important, the endless mileage the deniers got out of this relatively meaningless piece of weather. Hint, for the 47,396th time: Weather is not climate.
- Parts of Canada, Alaska, and Eastern Russia were much hotter. More heat where the permafrost, ice, and methane hydrate deposits live is not good news.
- Hotter in Australia. The last thing Australia needs, as they continue to endure the Big Dry, is a heat wave. (For more on this, invoke the Google Machine.)
- Ditto for a large portion of Africa and the Middle East.
