EDITORIAL: Blowing smoke over global warming - Washington Times

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jul/16/blowing-smoke-over-global-warming/
It's easy to forget that at 3.8 million square miles, the United States comprises less than 2 percent of the Earth's surface. Sizzling thermometer readings here don't indicate temperature patterns elsewhere. Sweden's Meteorological and Hydrological Institute recently reported that Swedes shivered through their chilliest June since weather statistics were first recorded in 1786, with an average daytime high of 56 degrees — three degrees below normal. At about the same distance from Washington as Stockholm, Anchorage, Alaska, hasn't once seen the temperature rise to its normal average of 65 for this month, and is on pace to set a record low average temperature for July.