If you don't have a whole lot of recorded history then every instance where you record something is more likely to be a "record". A prime example is well demon

If you don't have a whole lot of recorded history then every instance where you record something is more likely to be a "record". A prime example is well demonstrated in this visualization, for example the West Coast USA states hitting all-time record temperatures more frequently than the East. Well, most of the West Coast has been uninhabited until recently, and the East Coast has a few hundred years of data, so of course their all-time records are much less likely. It neither means Climate Change doesn't exist nor that anyone is lying, only that the data is being misinterpreted.