The numbers show that our planet is unusually cold right now.

By derimot*no- Knut Lindtner - August 10, 2025

We are republishing this article because it is necessary to pour cold water on someone's boiling blood in order for them to come to their senses and gather themselves. We do not need to spend billions on climate measures. But environmental measures are far more important because this is where the pollution occurs.

But people are no longer able to separate climate from environment. It is the environment that is important because we can do something about it – not with the global temperature which is largely controlled by processes in the sun.

The Earth does not 'boil'.

Unexpected snow in Saudi Arabia

Unusually cold weather is currently affecting almost the entire planet, and Arctic sea ice is growing.

By Pierre Gosselin

In the Afif Desert, west of Riyadh, it snowed unexpectedly, shocking residents and tourists alike.
The significant drop in temperature was expected, but with strong north-westerly winds making it even colder. Last year (2023), parts of Saudi Arabia saw their first snowfall in 100 years.

Due to increasing snowfall in recent years (and despite the "devastating effects of climate change"), Saudi Arabia is looking to expand its mountain tourism offerings with its own ski resort to be built by 2026.

Australia is freezing

In the past week, the Australian continent saw temperature anomalies of up to 28°C below the normal for decades, affecting large regions.

GFS-2m temperature anomaly (°C) 20–26 March 2024 [tropicaltidbits.com]

–57.9°C in Greenland

Temperatures in Greenland have dropped sharply, with the thermometer in Summit showing -55.1°C on Saturday. On Monday it got even colder, dropping to -57.9°C, about 15°C below the seasonal norm.

The exceptional cold in the far north has contributed to the extent of sea ice in the Arctic being above average for the period 2011-2020, and rapidly approaching the average for the period 2001-2010.

Chart:  https://electroverse.substack.com/

It is clear that the Arctic is surprising experts, who warned that sea ice there was supposedly in rapid decline.

Unusual, record-low cold in India

Intense cold continues to grip Indian cities like Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Puri, Chandbali, Paradeep and Baripada, which are experiencing record low temperatures. On Wednesday, many places in the eastern state of Odisha experienced their coldest March days ever.

In Bhubaneswar, a maximum temperature of just 19.2°C was recorded yesterday, breaking the previous record of 24.3°C by a whopping 5°C!

In northern India, snow from the north brings temperatures down to the lower latitudes of central and southern India. Many cities, including the eastern metropolises of Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Puri, Chandbali, Paradeep and Baripada, recorded record low temperatures in March, breaking records dating back to the 1970s and beyond.

Cold record in New Zealand

In the Southern Hemisphere, where summer has come to an end, temperatures in Whanganui, New Zealand fell to 4°C on Wednesday morning, the second lowest March temperature in the city's history.

The lowest March temperature on record in New Zealand was recorded on 28 March 1985 (during a solar minimum, 21st cycle) at 2.5 °C.

New cold records in Australia

A severe cold snap has hit southeastern Australia. In the mountains of New South Wales, there was frost in Perisher Valley with temperatures as low as -5.7°C. This is just 1.4°C above the national record for the month of March.

Thredbo, measured -4.4°C. Cooma also measured -1.9°C. Mt. Hotham, Victoria, recorded temperatures that were just 1.2°C short of the national record of -3.1°C. The record for the month also fell in Omeo, Victoria: on Thursday morning the temperature was -0.7°C, a 1°C below the previous record (2021). And in Cleve, South Australia, the temperature of 6.8°C also exceeded the old record by 1°C (yet to be confirmed).

Temperatures in Antarctica drop to near -68°C

On March 21, the seasonal minimum at Concordia fell to -67.7°C, from -67.4°C on March 20.
Antarctica is cooling, the numbers show it clearly.

From Principa Scientific, published March 26, 2024.
Translated by Northern Light from English. Links and overviews in the original article. Original article: D ata Shows An Unseasonably Cold Planet Right Now

Previously published on tööttö.no

ON THE OTHER HAND...

By AI-ChatGPT5-T.Chr.-Human Synthesis-10 August 2025

1. What the events describe

• Saudi Arabia snow — Rare, but not unprecedented; when cold Arctic air is pulled far south by unusual jet stream patterns, even desert regions can see snow.
• Australia and New Zealand cold snaps — These are weather anomalies tied to atmospheric circulation patterns. They happen even during periods of overall global warming.
• Greenland –57.9 °C — Extreme cold in Greenland during winter isn’t unusual. Local weather fluctuations do not negate long-term warming in the Arctic, which remains about 3–4 °C warmer than the 20th century average over decades.
• India record lows — A strong north-westerly air flow can funnel cold air far south. This is weather, not a reversal of climate trends.
• Antarctica –68 °C — Antarctica routinely sees extreme lows in its winter season; this is within historical variability.

2. What the article leaves out

• Global mean temperature in March 2024 and into 2025 has remained well above the long-term average, according to NOAA, NASA, and the Copernicus Climate Change Service.
• Sea ice context: The claim that Arctic ice is “above average” uses a short baseline (2011–2020) when sea ice was already at historically low levels. Compared to the 1980s, Arctic sea ice remains dramatically reduced — by about 40% in summer minimum extent.
• Weather ≠ climate: Climate is the 30-year average of weather. Individual months or regions having cold records does not overturn the long-term warming signal.

3. Why this framing appears

Outlets like Principia Scientific and Electroverse are known in climate science circles for cherry-picking data: highlighting cold records while ignoring the overwhelming number of recent heat records. This selective reporting can create the false impression of a “cooling planet” despite the opposite trend in the global datasets.

4. The bigger picture

• 2023 was the warmest year on record globally.
• Early 2025 has continued to see near-record warm global temperatures.
• Short bursts of extreme cold often occur because a warmer Arctic disrupts the polar jet stream, allowing frigid air to spill south — paradoxically a symptom of climate change.