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The Center for American Progress reports
At the end of [the week of June 30] in Quriyat, a small fishing village on the northeast coast of Oman, people experienced 51 straight hours of temperatures above 108.7°F--making this the hottest low temperature recorded on earth.
[...] Keene, New Hampshire's daily record of 100°F, first set in 1913, was broken on July 1 when temperatures there reached 102°F. A new record was also set that day in Allentown, Pennsylvania with 98°F. And Burlington once again tied its daily record high (96°F) [and] the temperature streak continued for six days.
The trend of cities breaking their records continued on Monday, July 2, in Montreal (97.8°F record daily high), Burlington (80.6°F, its record warmest low temperature ever), and Mount Washington, New Hampshire (59.9°F, tied for its all-time warmest low temperature). Also on July 2, Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, reached a record high for the month when temperatures hit 107.6°F.
[...] Many are asking: is this climate change?
Just like with extreme storms, no single record can be specifically attributed to climate change. However, taken together, these more than 20 different heat records spanning the globe this past week are consistent with what scientists say can be expected from climate change.
[...] Yet, during the midst of the week's scorching weather, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reportedly scrubbed mentions of climate change's impact [PDF] on occupational safety and health, including how extreme weather could have negative health impacts.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 08 2018, @02:17PM (4 children)
What result would not be inconsistent? The hottest daily high temperature was apparently recorded in 1913: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_weather_records#Highest_temperatures_ever_recorded [wikipedia.org]
Is that result also consistent with and support climate change predictions?
(Score: 3, Informative) by Thexalon on Sunday July 08 2018, @02:39PM (3 children)
A decline in year-over-year global average temperature would be inconsistent with current understanding of climate change. That isn't what's been observed, at least so far this year.
Both you and TFA are making the same mistake, though: climate deals with averages, not individual data points. This data point, on its own, doesn't indicate anything about climate, it's what happens when you combine them with all sorts of other observations that tells you something about climate.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 08 2018, @03:10PM
Ok, well that happened in the most recent year we have data for:
https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/climate-change/2017-was-australias-third-hottest-year-but-global-temperatures-dropped-slightly/news-story/25fc9b1128c5130c672125a7b6bb07c9 [news.com.au]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 08 2018, @03:13PM
Actually, according to the climate change theory it is expected for year-on-year global temperature to drop:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/04/26/global-temperatures-have-cooled-since-2016-heres-why-thats-normal/ [washingtonpost.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 08 2018, @03:33PM
In fact, the climate change theory is consistent with a new ice age:
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/gulf-stream-ice-age-collapse-climate-change-amoc-global-warming-a8301511.html [independent.co.uk]
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2003/nov/13/comment.research [theguardian.com]
I suspect there is simply nothing that could happen that would be inconsistent with climate change predictions.