While the Northern Hemisphere is crisp and deep and even for a few hours, Australia is frying and floating :-
https://itn.co.uk/a5a07a2ef00bbaff25fe86ec3377248e.html
And back Up North, despite the recent cold snap, the Central England Temperature average for the year 2009 to 22nd December was 0.73 degrees C above the long-term mean :-
https://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcet/cet_info_mean.html
Underneath all the cold and ice, the wall-to-wall “two inches of snow and Britain stops working” news, there’s another, lurking reality : on the whole, it’s warming up.