34 was hot in the US, what about world average temps?
I’ll be the first to state that averaging the entire globe’s temperatures to extrapolate some kind of meaning out of it is a fool’s errand and highly fraught with error, but let’s compare the same things.
I know in Europe and such it has been unseasonably hot this year, but not so much here in the US. One would think that the averaging error would be about the same one way or the other, but the underlying data is never presented or is usually obfuscated somehow.
The problem is that a lot of the world didn’t have the temperature tracking that we had. There simply is not a record to compare. So we go with what we had back then.
And if someone is saying, today, that we had the “hottest day on record”, that is a fair thing to compare.
He actually talks about that very thing in some of his videos here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/TonyHeller1/videos