Nothing Drives Home The Point Like a Picture

January 2008, it's cold all over the Earth ... And no one dare wants to look up to find the answer.

Not going to link to the mourning treehuggers site, but an excerpt from the caption is worth a comment ...

Excerpt:

In fact, it's very possible for large regions of the globe to get cooler while the average for the whole planet goes up as heat gets distributed differently.

Yep, and it's also very possible for large regions of the globe to get cooler while the average for the whole planet goes down.