Left-wing NY Times blogger Andy Revkin suggests that carbon dioxide simultaneously caused too-wet weather and too-dry weather

Scientists See Links From Asian Floods to Russian Heat - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

Two climatologists, Peter Stott at the British Met Office and Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, have separately described atmospheric dynamics that appear to link the extreme rains and flooding in Asia with Russia’s unrelenting, extraordinary heat and resulting conflagrations.

Russian Heat, Asian Floods May Be Linked | Wired Science | Wired.com

“We haven’t done the studies, but there’s very good reason to suspect that there’s a relationship,” said Kevin Trenberth, head of climate analysis at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

[If weather is now climate, why doesn't Revkin spend more time writing about extreme cold weather outside of Moscow?] : Global Cooling Is Here, Pt. VIII: From San Diego to Santiago, It's Cold Out There, Baby!

The world has had a few hot spots the past few months, but large areas of extreme cold and cooler temperatures are dominating.