You ignore the hot places on earth? Why? I guess just to satisfy yourself that global warming is all just nonsense. Well, that flies in the face of reality:
Hot and cold in 2010
Heat records were broken in 17 countries including Belarus, Ukraine, Finland, Russia, Sudan, Niger and Saudi Arabia. Pakistan had Asia's hottest ever recorded day when the temperature in the abandoned city of Mohenjo-daro reached 53.7C (129F).
• Pakistan experienced the worst flooding in its history as a result of exceptionally heavy monsoon rains.
• The northern hemisphere summer saw exceptional heatwaves in several parts of Eurasia. In Moscow, July mean temperatures were 7.6C above normal, making it the city's hottest month on record by more than 2C.
• Ireland and Scotland both experienced their coldest winter since 1962-63. Many other parts of northern and central Europe had their coldest winter since 1978-79.
• Canada had its warmest winter on record, with national temperatures 4C above the long-term average; winter temperatures were 6C or more above normal in parts of the country's north.
• Most of the continental United States was colder than normal. For the US as a whole it was the coldest winter since 1984-85, and most southern areas from Texas eastwards had one of their 10 coldest winters on record.
• Parts of the Amazon basin were badly affected by drought with the Rio Negro, a major Amazon tributary, falling to its lowest level on record. Earlier in the year, Guyana and the eastern Caribbean islands were badly affected by drought.
• In Asia, parts of southwestern China experienced severe drought through late 2009 and early 2010. Yunnan and Guizhou provinces both had their lowest rainfalls on record |
