The press says earth is experiencing the hottest weather ever due to the burning of fossil fuels.
Most of the record heat is located just north of Antarctica where temperatures are below freezing and where there isn’t any long-term temperature data.
1990 IPCC Report
“An international team of specialists has concluded from eight indexes of climate that there is no end in sight to the cool- ing trend of the last 30 years, at least in the Northern Hemisphere.
Data from the Southern Hemisphere, particularly south of latitude 30 south, are so meager that reliable conclusions are not possible, the report says.”
TimesMachine: January 5, 1978 – NYTimes.com
Temperature Changes in the United States – Climate Science Special Report