First, just a reminder: anthropogenic climate change (aka global warming) will not wipe out humanity; but it will lead to millions of deaths, plus immense costs and disruptions, which the next few generations will bear. And we could have prevented it.
Another reminder: despite what this map shows, as soon as the first real cold of the 2025-26 winter hits after Thanksgiving, lots of people will say "this disproves global warming." No, climate theory predicts weather extremes with the average temperature of the planet going up. It will still get cold in winter.
With all that preamble, here is NOAA's temperature anomaly map for October:
Congratulations, Mongolia, Botswana, and Guyana, you had below-average temperatures last month. The record warmth in the Antarctic, where much of the world's land-locked ice lives, should raise eyebrows too. And out of the 140 years we have kept records, October was warmer than 124 of them in the US.
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