A new paper published in Climatic Change examined the increased frequency of record-breaking monthly temperature records over the past 130 years and found that these records are now five times more likely to occur due to global warming, with much more to come.
This is complete garbage. The reason they are finding more record temperatures now is because they are adding more stations. If a station was added after 1980, its record temperatures will all occur after 1980.
Doing an apples to apples comparison where we only use the same stations – it becomes obvious that maximum monthly temperature records peaked during the 1930s, and that no year since 1955 has even cracked the top ten.
Is the author completely incompetent, dishonest – or both?