Thanks for this comment. Given that this entire article is about how short-term trends may be different than the long-term trend of global warming, especially on local/regional scales, I doubt very seriously that any comment we add is going to stop some people from cherry picking a sentence to spread climate disinformation!

Still, I'm happy to re-state the obvious:

• A cooling trend in a single month in a small part of the planet does not prove that global warming isn't happening.
• Global warming is the increase in temperature that we see when we average the yearly temperature over the entire surface area of the planet—not the monthly temperature in part of the United States—and then look at how that annual temperature has changed over the span of a century or more.
• Most of that warming trend is due to the fact that human activity is adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere faster than natural sources can absorb them.
• Carbon dioxide is the most important of these warming gases.