Well the logic goes that the number of record breaking years can go above the expected number and people shouldn’t be too worried, but the probability of the record being broken repeatedly in a short space of time and being above the predicted limit is very small and more likely due to the mechanism no longer being a random event (i.e. human intervention). So we shouldn’t need more years of measurement to verify this. I have since looked into the same statistics for record cold winters and record warm summers and they also show the same ‘no longer random’ behaviour although with less certainty.
I agree though, the consequences of doing nothing are not worth the risk the doubters are taking…
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