What does this image MEAN?

Go look at the image! (it's about climate, and it's not a babe in a bikini -- sorry if you thought so)

It means: the National Climate Data Center says

• The combined global land and ocean surface temperature for July 2009 was the fifth warmest on record, at 0.57°C (1.03°F) above the 20th century average of 15.8°C (60.4°F).
• The global ocean surface temperature for July 2009 was the warmest on record, 0.59°C (1.06°F) above the 20th century average of 16.4°C (61.5°F). This broke the previous July record set in 1998. The July ocean surface temperature departure from the long-term average equals June 2009 value, which was also a record.

NASA (GISS) says it's the 2nd-warmest July. And they get a lot of anomalous warmth in Antarctica, which isn't covered as well by NCDC. Either way: globally, July 2009 is hot. Except in a large portion of the United States, helping conservative climate change skeptics to keep thinking there is some kind of global cooling going on.