People say this very often - but government temperature charts do not support this notion.

If the average summer temperature has increased by about 1F over 30 years... can you even tell the difference? Can you go outside right now and determine the difference between 88 and 89 degrees? I think not.

So, what's changed? Constant fearmongering alerts on your phone and computer every day. You've convinced yourself, against all government evidence, that August truly is unbearably hot compared to years past. That's just not reality.

The average is rather useless if weather gets more extreme.

One hand on the stove and one in an ice bucket is isn't so bad on average.

Though you're kind of right, some years have a hotter August on average than other years and I believe this one was hotter for much of America. As in noticeably hotter for many days.

I assume the government charts are aware of this, so that 1F degree higher is measured by averaging ~5 Augusts together thirty years ago and comparing them to the most recent few Augusts.

Not only in America. The Mediterranean boiled this year with an average of 30 degrees Celsius, which for a sea is a lot

I'm not sure what is driving the recent anti-intellectual and anti-scientific viewpoints here lately on HN, but your conclusion of

> So, what's changed? Constant fearmongering alerts on your phone and computer every day.

Is just flat out wrong.

Sea surface temperatures are rising year over year [1].

> You've convinced yourself, against all government evidence, that August truly is unbearably hot compared to years past

Also wrong. Have some government evidence [2]

On top of that, the hand waving about one degree difference is ignorant. Nobody cares if you feel just as comfortable at 89 degrees where you live. For the people experiencing higher and longer heat waves at their most extreme, it's a survival issue. For people experiencing higher numbers of major category hurricanes, it's a survival issue. For people experiencing changes in rainfall patterns, shrinking groundwater reserves, shrinking fish populations, and dozens of other problems directly connected to climate change, it's a survival issue.

I swear in the last couple of months there has been a dramatic increase of hot takes from the common clay here that really exhaust the amount of time the rest of us want to spend correcting this garbage.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/1979-_Da...

[2] https://www.epa.gov/system/files/styles/large/private/images...

Yeah. The worst is that it is not alarmism, it’s literally what it already is. According to a rather new research, things may get even worse than predicted

Can you please not post in the flamewar style to HN and just make your substantive points thoughtfully? The amount of bile and meta noise you've included in this comment puts it well outside the range of curious conversation.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. Note that among other things they ask you to eschew flamebait, not call names, not fulminate, and not sneer at the rest of the community.

(This is not a comment about the underlying topic—just thread quality.)