Drought always causes higher temperatures, but curiously they also
reported that given the lack of rainfall the high temperatures were not as high as expected writing, «The
scatter plot shows that 2012 was the driest summer in the historical record,
though the temperature anomaly of +2 °C was exceeded by two prior summers — 1934 and 1936.
For the purposes of their
report organic aerosols only have a
scattering (negative forcing) effect even
though they are known to also absorb.