The video below provides a year’s worth of high and low temperature records globally. In 2018, across all these sites, there was about a two-to-one skewing of high vs cold temperature records. Writ large, over time, there should be a rough balance between these. With humanity’s thumb on the scales, with a warming climate, monitoring globally has been showing far more high temperature records being broken than cold ones (decade in, decade out, for the past forty years).
If the climate wasn’t changing in one direction, over time, writ large we should expect two things:
- A rough balance, between highs and lows, with perhaps some ‘see-sawing’ with colder and warmer periods.
- A (slow?) decline in total records as it should, with more years of data, become harder to set either record highs or lows.
Neither of those is the case.
PS: Another great visualization
