Ice has melted before. It has also formed before and is forming now. Nothing new there.
Hurricanes have been around a long time.
Nothing new there.
It`s weather and climate. It changes. Always has, always will.
In the times of civilization, what is happening now in a very short time, has not been seen before.
Actually you'd have to back-step that time some 100-200 times.
So, to us it is.
As well as hurricanes in places where there are no records of them forming, and in times of year with no records of the same, as well as living longer.
All are results of warming seawater.
And Lazs...you claimed that we were cooling, now you take a backstep?
Yeh, sure, we have some tiny pockets of air that are under bar, but the real mass, as well as the largest part of the atmosphere is warming.
Oh, and you may measure the temp with odd parts of your anatomy, I choose the temp gauge, and for some ride with a sense of realism, you can judge by flora & fauna, melting of ice, and the movements of various lifeforms.
I think that makes a decently more accurate measurement than your butt-cheek method. It might for instant vary with what you've just done with them, or to them, or how thick the insulation is in relation to the season etc