Comment Re:"Since people have been keeping records" (Score 1) 554
Absolutely correct. This is not a localized phenomenon. From the southern CA mountains where I live, the Rockies, British Columbia and more. For a stark example, take a flight out of Anchorage, AK. You are likely to take off towards the south, over the Kenai peninsula. Look down and will you see 2.3 million acres of brown, the largest loss of forest to insects ever recorded in North America. I believe similar outbreaks are affecting Eurasia as well. Biologists who understand the cascading impacts inherent in ecological interactions don't spend much energy questioning the flaws in how weather reporting stations measure temperatures (particularly when results from satellite sensors and ocean buoys are congruent with those from ground stations).
Next up: Malaria and/or any of a number of unforeseen consequences that directly impact human welfare.