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Data: Hottest month ever! Group A: Weather != Climate. Data: Coldest month ever! Group B: Weather != Climate. Round and round we go.

• nitrogen 11y ago
  Group A and Group B are mostly the same. Global "warming" leads to increases in extremes at both ends.
• elektromekatron 11y ago
  Get two thermometers and turn up the dial on your fridge.
• teraflop 11y ago
  That's a bit of a false comparison. Most of the "coldest ever" headlines that you'll see are talking about particular locations or regions, which have extremely high variance. If you look at enough different subsets of your data, you're bound to find both high and low extremes somewhere. But this article is talking about a global average, which is much less noisy. When you look at global average temperatures over a comparable span of time (since ~1880), every year in the last couple of decades has been pretty close to a record high. The last record low was more than a century ago. http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v3/ http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v3/
• mikeash 11y ago
  The last global "coldest month ever" was in 1893. So no, people are not responding to "coldest month ever" in any way right now.