Just a quick one here: I’ve been hearing a lot of denialists in the last few days asking, “Where has all the Global Warming gone?” The answer, as you can see from the above, is “everywhere in the world except for some parts North America, Greenland, and a small patch in Asia where Kazakhstan and Mongolia meet.”
Here you can see the Asian bit, which is surrounded by regions experiencing pretty remarkable warmth (relatively speaking):
Next time it’s cold outside and your crazy relative insists that means the entire world must be cold, you can do this yourself by visiting cci-reanalyzer.org, run out of the University of Maine. If the NSF funding is still there.
The “but it’s cold outside” rebuttal to climate change is — and there’s no way of sugarcoating this — a really stupid strawman. More heat trapped in the atmosphere doesn’t mean it will be hotter than normal everywhere, all the time, although at present we’re remarkably close to “hotter than normal almost everywhere”.