Record cold in Minnesota

It's very cold in Minnesota.  In fact it's record cold.  Does that mean that there's no such thing as global warming?

Well,  no.  Because that's just one part of the world.  The rest of the world (including where I live) is warmer than average, as this graphic shows:

Source:Climate denial Crock of the week

It's the global or perhaps the regional averages which matter, and their average over time.  The chart below shows a 60 month moving average of the global average anomaly.  A 5 year average helps remove a lot of the random year-to-year variation.  Short term cycles remain.  And so does the longer term trend, which is glaringly obvious.

Source: NOAA