Well, the article is about Europe, and Switzerland is one of the smaller countries in Europe, to say you're contradicting the narrative is a bit of a stretch.

There are other people from different parts of Europe saying they didn't have a very hot summer.

I'm pretty sure you could plot them out across all of europe and with your brilliant detective skills work out which parts were cooler and which were warmer and then make an average, and plot it out over time

You gave an anecdote about how you personally felt as if it was a valid counter point for scientifically measured continent wide record breaking temps

Of cours HN will trash you... what did you expect

There are plenty of other people from different parts of Europe confirm my anecdote of having a cooler summer. We should not fall for the fallacy of appealing to authority when we can easily collect data ourselves and confirm the findings.

I thought hacker news immune to such fallacies but it seems I was wrong. Very disappointing.

"It's so disappointing that hacker news doesn't believe my conspiracy theory!"

> There are plenty of other people from different parts of Europe confirm my anecdote of having a cooler summer.

And plenty who say it's warmer than usual, so what now ?

> We should not fall for the fallacy of appealing to authority

The data is out there, you're free to look at it, most countries publish historical weather data from as far as they have been recording it

> when we can easily collect data ourselves and confirm the findings.

Can you ? I personally don't own a continent wide array of weather stations, but if you do please publish your findings

Yeah, we're better than weighting in anecdotal data when there's plenty of high quality measurements from multiple sources readily available.

Considering the top comment is also an anecdote about 3rd world polluters being the least guilty or "being mad at climate change deniers" are you really surprised?

I am disappointed.

You had hopes for HN? This place shouldn't be taken seriously. Both the upvoting/downvoting system and the majority of users are dumb.