It's not disingenuous for the millions of people that live in the city, where these urbanized temperatures apply pretty well. News stations aren't trying to run an itemized global warming study during their saturday morning weather broadcast. If KPHX breaks a new record while some dirt tract north of Glendale failed to do so, that doesn't matter for the folks living in Phoenix, who have to endure those hotter temperatures anyways. UHI is a real form of localized climate change. Urban cores can shift one, two, even three whole USDA hardiness zones south because of it. And the kicker is, the denser the urban area, the worse this effect becomes, and the more people are affected Now if NOAA releases a broad global climate/energy budget study without factoring out these local biases, then we'd have a problem.

Last December here. Wanna trade? I'd legit take DC summer over this, lmfao. This is at the same latitude as central Maine, by the way.

In the context of breaking century old climate records, it’s disingenuous for reasons recognizable to anyone with an IQ above that of a chipmunk. If I built a giant magnifying glass above a city/ASOS station to amplify the temp readings, would those be valid climate records?

You can tell Phil is really torqued for this heatwave.

Nice underhanded brag.