It is anecdotal, but since the dumb @ss press uses a hot day in Atlanta in August to trumpet global warming I say what the heck lets do the same since the overeducated masses in this country will buy any d@m thing.
Tomorrow we will be back to coming ice age and still US at fault and Joe Bag O Doughnuts will swallow that whole as well.
Actually, if you look at the available data, i.e., ice cores, which show a repeating cycle, you may not be far off. Current Sun spot data shows we are in a period of very low activity. It appears we could be headed into another "Maunder Minimum", or a period of very low Sun spot activity which has in the past been linked to below normal temps worldwide.
The Maunder Minimum, 1645 to 1715, set off a period of temps that were considerably below normal. There was also the "Dalton Minimum" from 1795 to 1830 and the "Sporer Minimum" from 1420 to 1570. Each of these periods set off temps that were considerably below normal and they correspond directly to periods of low Sun spot activity.
During the Dalton Minimum there was one year that was so cold it was called "the year without a summer" because late frosts killed crops in the NE USA and it snowed in June. All three periods are associated with cycles of low Sun spot activity, exactly like what is being observed right now.....