THE QUESTION

How surprising or not surprising is it to learn that nearly one in three Americans live in a county that went through an extreme weather event this summer, including a prolonged heat wave, fire, hurricane or flooding?

MY ANSWER

And how surprising or not surprising is it to learn that the attribution of heat waves and forest fires to global warming overlooks the pattern in daily station data that show warming in night time daily Tmin and not in daytime Tmax?

SUPPORTING DATA: LINK: https://tambonthongchai.com/2018/04/05/agw-trends-in-daily-station-data/

EXAMPLE DATA

CONCLUSION: GLOBAL WARMING IS INCREASING NIGHTTIME DAILY MINIMUM TEMPERATURES NOT DAYTIME DAILY MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES. THE ATTRIBUTION OF THE EFFECTS OF DAYTIME DAILY MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES TO AGW MUST BE MADE WITH CAUTION AND SIGNFICANT EVIDENCE FOR THAT CAUSATION.