Scientists keep warning us about “extreme weather events” and how they are an indication of planetary heating. The 2023 report of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) defines “an extreme weather event ‘as an event that is rare at a particular place and time of year’, and an extreme climate event as ‘a pattern of extreme weather that persists for some time, such as a season’.” It could be extreme heat, extremely heavy rain, extreme d