N=2 is not a good sample size. This level is variation year after year is not exactly abnormal. Weather isn't climate.
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It's good to tie* long-term trends to experiences. People don't feel the global temperature average going up, but they do feel local temperature going up.
Here's a nice recent paper which includes Bucharest: Estimating future heat-related and cold-related mortality under climate change, demographic and adaptation scenarios in 854 European cities | Nature Medicine
Here's a nice platform to search for records... thanks to MSN: https://www.msn.com/en-xl/weather/records/in-Bucharest,Romania look at the red line.
I totally agree with you my friend. But when showing information in the way of this video, you open yourself to attacks, because you're mixing weather with climate, and sometimes hot days happen in winter. This sort of bad science communication without the necessary context can do more harm than good IMO.
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And what's your strategy for communicating The Big Problem?
@jol I agree that this is an oversimplified comparison and that the averages are the ones to consider. The higher temperatures during winter also contribute to these though, especially if they happen during every winter in the last few years.