BBC Ignore Cold Weather In India
By Paul Homewood
You may recall the heatwave in India last May, which the BBC naturally blamed on climate change:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-61242341
When all the data for the month was in, it turned that it was only the 43rd hottest on record in Delhi! Indeed, as the chart below shows, it used to be consistently much hotter in May in the 1940s. May, of course, is usually the hottest month of the year in India, as temperatures dip when the monsoon arrives in June.
But there has been much less discussion by the BBC about the extremely cold weather there in May this year. Indeed it is the third coldest on record:
https://data.giss.nasa.gov/tmp/gistemp/STATIONS/tmp_IN022021900_15_0_1/station.txt
Temperatures near to 30C may seem high to us, but when early morning temperatures dip to 15C, which they did on the fourth, that is a problem for people without heating or proper cold weather clothing.
But you won’t see that on the BBC.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Australia is having record lows, Greenland snow balance is above the average for the time of year, the melt is very slow. Arctic sea ice is melting slower than average. Not on the BBC, only HOT news is broadcast.
If it’s benign or goes against the narrative; ignore it.
If it’s unusual, extreme or supports the narrative in any way, scream from the rooftops.
Because the arts graduate word weasels of the BBC are pushing an ideology nothing more they are too ignorant to realize that “climate change” does not mean only warmer. They display a fundamental lack of understanding which is fine when you wish to promote ideology unhindered by facts.
You raise an interesting point. Global Warming morphed into Climate Change when it became apparent that regional temperature changes could be negative as well as positive in a warming world.
It seems that the BBC has not understood this because they should have no problem in ascribing unseasonable cold weather in India to Climate Change.
NOAA on May 2023:
“Temperatures were above average throughout most of North America, South America and Africa. Parts of western Europe, northwestern Russia, southeast Asia, the Arctic and northern and southern Oceania also experienced warmer-than-average temperatures this month….Temperatures were near to cooler than average across parts of the southeastern U.S., Greenland, eastern Europe, central and southern Asia, Australia and Antarctica…”
Which doesn’t really sound very dramatic. It’s very much a mixed bag around the world:
“North America and South America each had a record-warm May….May in the contiguous U.S. ranked 11th warmest on record….Africa had its eighth-warmest May, Asia its 16th-warmest, and Europe its 20th-warmest….The United Kingdom had its seventh-warmest May….The Netherlands recorded a near-normal temperature for May. Meanwhile, Italy had a cooler-than-average May….Oceania had a lower-than-average May temperature. It was the region’s coolest May since 2011….New Zealand had its warmest May on record. May in Australia was 1.10°C below average, making it the coolest May since 2011. It was Australia’s second-driest May on record.”
Make of that what you will. It doesn’t sound particularly scary to me.
Comparing single data points to averages, as if the average is somehow what the weather should be is absurd. I would bet that tgexavweages contain approximately 50% years colder and 50% years hotter thanthe average, so above average is as likely as below average. In other words, this data are exactly what you’d predict.