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Take any region, country or city, look up heat highs or averages.

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...

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This page lists the highest temperatures from around the world:

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.

This is false. USGCRP Climate Science Special Assessment: Volume 1: Chapter 6: Temperature Changes in the United States https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/6/ Scroll down to figure 6.3. You can see that the 1920's to 1940's had more extreme heat events than any time since. Figure 6.4 is also useful to look at.

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