> reader wrote:   
   >   
   >> Regarding the previous and current interglacial:   
   >   
   >The data is just plain made-up.   
   >   
   >We just experienced a record breaking COLD winter   
   >followed by a cooler than average summer. There   
   >weren't a lot of cold days, true, but the number   
   >or days over 100 or even 90 was historically low.   
   >AND THEN they tell us how hot it was...   
      
   This is from jan. 2018, this year is on track to b:   
      
   '2018 is a hot year: It's on pace to be the 4th-hottest on record'e   
      
   https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/28/us/2018-global-heat-record-4th-wxc/index.html   
      
   Regarding recent history:   
      
   'The 10 Hottest Global Years on Record'   
      
   http://www.climatecentral.org/gallery/graphics/the-10-hottest-gl   
   bal-years-on-record   
      
   According to NOAA, 2017 finished as the third-warmest year globally since   
   records began (NASA ranked it second-warmest).   
      
   Combining the data sets from NOAA and NASA finds: * The five warmest years   
   in the global record have all come in the 2010s * The 10 warmest years on   
   record have all come since 1998 * The 20 warmest years on record have all   
   come since 1995   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)