June Hottest Month On Record? It's Just One More Overheated Claim

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"A trusted -- by some -- federal agency says that this June was the hottest June on record in the Lower 48.
Many will take this as further evidence that man's greenhouse gas emissions are cooking the planet. Others will look at it and ask "what in the world are these people talking about?"
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said last week that "above-average temperatures spanned the nation from coast to coast, and 17 states across the West, Great Plains and parts of the Southeast experienced temperatures much above average."
Well, OK.
But what about those places where June was cooler than usual, or was at least nowhere near a record warm month. 
Real Climate Science points out a few spots where it didn't get so hot in June and asks "where was this record heat located?"
It surely wasn't in Crosbyton, Texas, where June 2016 was cooler than many a June going back more than 100 years.
Nor was it in Albany, Ga.; Lexington, Va.; or Berkeley, Calif., or several other locations around the nation.
Real Climate Science also points out that, "averaged over the whole country, only 3.2% of June days were over 100 F, compared to 11% during June 1933."
Only 17.4% of weather stations reached 100 degrees this June "compared to 57.6% during June 1933."
One of the points that has to be taken from this is the foolishness of trying to determine an average temperature for a country, let alone an entire planet.
And it is indeed foolishness. Bjarne Andresen, a professor at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen, says the concept of a global temperature is thermodynamically as well as mathematically impossible to establish.
"It is impossible to talk about a single temperature for something as complicated as the climate of Earth," Andresen, an expert in thermodynamics, says..."