World's hottest day since records began

It wasn't as hot as 2023 !

No, it is a bit like everyone falling over themselves and saying "its pretty hot in the med this summer, let's call it global boiling and scare the shite out of everyone", the point being that we should not confuse the weather with climate change but this is precisely what all the fanatics have done in recent weeks.

I've read that the hottest temperature on record in Europe occurred in Sicily in 2021 but as Sicily is an island, it's not Europe so @Akrasia & @Shoog , can you tell where the real European high temperature occurred as everywhere I check states that it was Sicily but you've both told everyone here that can't be true due to Sicily being an island and is therefore not Europe.........exact same situation as is the case for Ireland.

Have you figured out what continent you live on yet?

October 2022 - Ambitious to say that it was Ireland's wettest ever October. Six stations with relatively short recording history, 25 years or less claim that. Moorepark has a record of 58 years, a better contender but still only a localised station. Long term stations such as Valentia don't mention anything about them seeing the wettest October on record and Casement reporting wettest October in eleven years isn't exactly record shattering. The overall claim that October 2022 was Ireland's wettest October on record is rather misleading.

March 2023 - Four stations had their wettest March on record. These were Athenry, Co Galway with 185.9 mm (record length 32 years), Mace Head, Co Galway with 151.2 mm (length 18 years), Mount Dillon, Co Roscommon with 169.8 mm (length 18 years) and Casement Aerodrome, Co Dublin with 109.3 mm (length 59 years). Again, most of the stations with records have a short history. Of the longer term stations - Dublin Airport, Phoenix Park, Co Dublin also had its wettest March since 1947 with 121.3 mm. Claremorris, Co Mayo had its wettest March since 1978 with 164.5 mm and Cork Airport, Co Cork had its wettest March since 1981 with 211.3 mm. Sherkin Island, Co Cork had its wettest March since 1989 with 179.6 mm and Moore Park, Co Cork had its wettest March since 1996 with 144.4 mm.

June 2023 - 23 stations had their warmest June on record (record lengths range from 12 to 83 years). Dublin Airport and Phoenix Park, Co Dublin had their warmest June since 1976. More of a substantial claim here. Thankfully we got this month in an otherwise appalling summer.

July 2023 - *Over the next few months, the rainfall totals from our network of voluntary observers will be returned and quality controlled, once this process is finalised, we run the analysis again, and will then confirm if July 2023 was indeed the wettest July on record (record length 83 years).

Let's await the July 2023 data to come in before laying claims.

Not at all. It was stated by yourself or/and @Akrasia that Ireland is not Europe because it's an island. If that is the case, then every island that is supposedly Europe, is not actually Europe.

There have been pretty severe heatwaves in the Canary Islands of late and the the effects of climate change are regularly discussed in that area, alongside other parts of Europe. Temperatures exceeded 45° in Gran Canaria in August 2021. I'm not at all being pedantic when I ask this but are the Canary Islands part of Europe? Or Africa? Or neither?

Pedantry means to get overly concerned about minor details however when one makes statements that are either unclear or incorrect, then valid responses are not pedantic. The argument was that discussion about climate change and excessive heat in Europe did not apply to Ireland because it's an island however that argument causes confusion because there are many islands in Europe with (as I previously mentioned) the hottest ever recorded temperature in Europe being recorded on an island.

Weather - Climate - not the same thing.

Weather - Climate - not the same thing.

so is it all a conspiracy, or just all the scientists and universities have it all wrong or what?

Who knows. If it starts raining cats I might start driving an EV. But for now I'm just happy to point out the hypocrisy of climate activists.

I'm not an activist I just believe the overwhelming findings of scientists worldwide, as do you when it suits you.