I just think it's kind of alarming. Current trends are showing that extreme heat like this is becoming more and more common. 40,000 daily heat records broken....that doesn't seem normal to me.
I mean, weather does go in cycles. The medieval period was historically warm, and the period after that was historically cool. There have been warm and cool periods ever since the end of the last Ice Age. The recent temperature spike however is so large that it dwarfs anything we have seen in the past few thousand years. Is it normal? I don't think so. Although recent rises in solar activity could be a contributing factor, I think human activity is mostly to blame.
