Now, what that means is the chances of the temperatures that we saw this year happening in the observations was about once in 600 years. but what is interesting here is that the blue line, essentially, this blue line, it never coincides with the magenta line. now, what that means is such an event would have been statistically impossible in a world without climate change. it's fascinating to see that, as you said, in the pre—industrial world, which is the blue line, it doesn't even get anywhere near that temperature! and, in fact, the highest that i can see here is about 32.5 degrees. follow ...