Except when these "freak heat waves" start becoming common place.
In recent years many places around the would appear to be setting new temperature records on a rather regular basis.
In recent years many places around the would appear to be setting new temperature records on a rather regular basis.
You will inadvertently find that around half a dozen extreme events happened in the last two decades.
Since a giant political movement seems to be based on the unwillingness to read more than ~24 characters at a time, here is a beautiful chart that really shows this: [0]. It does not even have text!
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warming_stripes#/media/File:20...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_weather_records
The nice thing about that page is when you scroll down to the continent/country table data there is an option to sort by date column.
Sorting by date shows most of these records were set in the 21 century.
More worryingly many of those records were set in the last half decade.
While this might be coincidence, it could also be a trend and if it is the later then things are starting to look rather ominous. Time will tell.
A substantial one too, here's a very very rough map (which only measures one aspect, and has terrible resolution)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_effects_of_climate_ch...