Climate Scientists Say The Dice Are Loaded. Here's Why

There's always a lot of noise whenever we experience a heat wave, isn't there? On one side we hear from doom-mongers who tell us this is a portent of a thoroughly dystopian future that is going to arrive within years. On the other side we have the sceptics who say it's all part of the Earth's natural cycles and we just need to calm down a bit. So, what does the actual science tell us?

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Research Links

John Lang's Climate Trunk "Loading the Dice" graphic
https://www.climatetrunk.com/infographics/loading-the-heat-dice

Bloomberg Article about recent warming events
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-extreme-heat-climate-change-data

Climate Lab Book on Substack
https://climatelabbook.substack.com/p/the-summer-of-1976

Ed Hawkins' 'Show Your Stripes' website
https://showyourstripes.info/

Potsdam Institute paper
https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/data-based-analysis-confirms-paris-agreement-temperature-limits-increasingly-out-of-reach

Ludescher et al - Natural variability-focussed assessment of climate overshoot timing
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02525-5

European Space Agency - video about heatwaves
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2026/06/Europe_faces_the_heat

Copernicus Climate Change Service - Why is Europe warming so quickly?
https://climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2025/why-europe-warming-so-quickly

World Weather Attribution Service
https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/fossil-fuel-emissions-have-rapidly-worsened-european-heatwaves-in-just-a-few-decades/

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