Geographical Variability

Geographically located temperature anomalies vary, at any one time, from around -2⁰C to +5⁰C – i.e + 1.5⁰C +/- 3.5⁰C.

CO2 concentration is geographically homogenous. It is therefore illogical to blame local hotspots (or cold spots) on CO2.

The graphic below shows a progression of months from April 2024 (the hottest average in the satellite record) through to December 2025 for a section of the Northern hemisphere. The +4.5C anomaly in April 2024 (over Eastern Europe) moves and by end 2025 the largest anomaly (+3.5C) is over Greenland.

The alarmist media blame any local ‘hotspot’ on Climate Change which means that burning fossil fuels and CO2 is to blame even though this is totally illogical.

There may be other anthropogenic causes for local climate (temperature) variability including the change use of land for agriculture and urbanisation.