It's pretty clear that the 2018 heat event was indeed an exceptional event, especially in Northern Europe. This is not "a dramatic situation that isn't". Of c

It's pretty clear that the 2018 heat event was indeed an exceptional event, especially in Northern Europe. This is not "a dramatic situation that isn't". Of course articles in the popular press are going to use different narrative techniques ("give them concrete examples!" is the usual advice to science writers) than scientific papers would. So if you want "thorough scientific methods", you'd have to look elsewhere. This is the closest I've found to an attribution study of to what extent climate change is responsible for this heatwave event: http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2018-07-27-heatwave-made-twice-likely-climate-change http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2018-07-27-heatwave-made-twice-like... A gloss on the larger significance of the report in the growing area of "attribution" is here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05849-9 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05849-9