[troutman]

Originally Posted by Slava

Something seems weird about that then. I quite often watch the news in the evening and they always talk about record high and low temperatures for Calgary, at least in passing. So if the planet is getting significantly hotter, wouldn't we expect those records to be very recent? Instead, from a purely anecdotal perspective, these temperature records all seem to be from decades ago. And I know; the response is "that's weather you fool" and I'm fine with that. (Some times you have to dumb this down for a guy in finance!) But then this guy effectively tracks the weather for 40 years and it's climate. I just think there is a blurring of the lines here at some point.

We are seeing more record high temperatures being set recently.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/s...cord.html?_r=0

Since 1880, NOAA’s records show only one other instance when global temperature records were set three years in a row: in 1939, 1940 and 1941. The Earth has warmed so much in recent decades, however, that 1941 now ranks as only the 37th-warmest year on record.

Of the 17 hottest years on record, 16 have now occurred since 2000.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard...-break-records

Each of the first six months of 2016 set a record as the warmest respective month globally in the modern temperature record, which dates to 1880, according to scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. The six-month period from January to June was also the planet's warmest half-year on record, with an average temperature 1.3 degrees Celsius (2.4 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the late nineteenth century.