One of the favourite tactics of the anti-science rabble that rejects man-made climate change is to highlight cold weather somewhere as though this negates a 50-year rising surface temperatures trend on Earth.
the idiocy of this sort of approach by deniers of man-made climate change has many people scratching their heads.
Writer Liam Denning in part addressed this issue in a Bloomberg Opinion piece from 2018 when he observed - correctly - that climate change denial is meant to be stupid.
US meteorological agency NOAA also gives a nod to this denier non-issue in its global climate report for May issued overnight at ncdc.noaa.gov. excerpts from this report follow.
NOAA: Monthly Temperature: May 2021
”The May 2021 global surface temperature was 0.81°C (1.46°F) above the 20th century average of 14.8°C (58.6°F). This value tied with 2018 as the sixth warmest May in the 142-year record.
”May 2021 was also the 45th consecutive May and the 437th consecutive month with temperatures, at least nominally, above the 20th century average.
Monthly highlights showed that only 3.0% of the world's surface had record-warm May temperature—the tenth highest May percentage for record-warm May temperatures since records began in 1951.
”Cooler-than-average May temperatures were observed across parts of North America, the eastern Pacific Ocean, central Europe, and central Asia and India. There was a small area in eastern India that had a record-cold May temperature, encompassing only 0.1% of the world surface with a record-cold May temperature
Year-to-date Temperature: January–May 2021
”The January–May 2021 global surface temperature was also the eighth warmest such period on record, with a temperature departure of 0.77°C (1.39°F) above average.
“Although the year-to-date global surface temperature was above average, this was the smallest temperature departure for January–May since 2014.
“Looking ahead, the year 2021 is very likely to rank among the ten warmest years on record, with less than 2% chance to rank among the five warmest years on record, according to a statistical analysis done by NCEI scientists.”
