Northern Europe's Historically Cold November; + Kerry Seeks To End All Coal Power Plants

-- a plot that is already inheriting poverty-induced misery on the West, while the East prospers with 1,000+ new coal plants in the works.

Northern Europe's Historically Cold November

November was very cold across Northern Europe, particularly Scandinavia.

Norway posted a temperature anomaly of -3.5C below the multidecadal average last month. Some areas notched anomalies of sub -8C, which is exceptional. Storforshei, for example, endured a month -8.7C (16.3F) below the norm.

Most of the country was "Cold" or "Very cold" --as designated by Norway's meteorological institute-- with parts of Trøndelag and Nordland "Extremely cold".

In total, eight stations set new record lows last month, including Vinje, Kragerø, Telemark and Namsskogan.

Elsewhere, Finland also endured an extremely frigid November.