Understandably, the recent editorial had a local focus pertaining to the heatwave.
Areas of that country also went through a dry year, with unusual heat, and suffered too many forest fires.
The UK endured its coldest April since 1922, and one of its coldest months of May in its 362-year weather record.
The global average temperature has dropped since the start of 2016.
As noted by astrophysicist Piers Corbyn: With the sun now into a grand solar minimum, its lowest energy output in two centuries, global cooling is accelerating.