Wandering around the Web, I found an interesting observation in a discussion of climate change and the reluctance to accept the scientific consensus.
A commenter wrote:
The record high for India was in 2016. Check out these record highs from around the world. Far more highs a few to several years ago than within the past couple of years. What does that tell a thinking person?
And they gave a link to a Wikipedia page with world weather records: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_weather_records
Which got me wondering, What does that tell a thinking person?
I scrolled through the list of record highs and noticed that, indeed, there were a lot of dates from before the 21st century and thought that was interesting.
Then I started wondering what we might expect the data to look like if there were no warming.
And my thought was that they should be evenly distributed through time.
So I threw them in Excel and took a look:
And I thought, "That doesn't look very random!"
