[aeroman]

Media focus does play a role, but weather records from many parts of the world go back over 100 years. These are independent of what the media is focussing on today and give us a very good picture of whether a particular weather event is 'extreme' or not.

These events really are exceptional. As an example, last month the UK temperature record was broken by over 1C, across large regions of the country. Usually, temperature records are broken by small amounts, maybe 0.2C. This heatwave really was extreme for the UK.

7 out of 10 of the hottest days in UK history have been since the year 2000. In a country with particularly long temperature records, this is also pretty amazing, and evidence of a significant change in the cliamte and extreme events.

[verisimi]

Do you realise that the historical records have been 'normalised', ie they are not the simple record that was made?