I think you may have missed the only portion of their argument that wasn't cherry picking: "10-15 years ago you did not need AC. Today every summer you're in d

I think you may have missed the only portion of their argument that wasn't cherry picking: "10-15 years ago you did not need AC. Today every summer you're in danger of a heatstroke if you don't have it." I would count this as a decently statistical argument, anecdotal as it is, because it's an economic observation, that if true, signals that the market is lagging behind some environmental change. Also, PDX did record 117F, by far the highest record in recorded history, by like 10F.