claim: So far this month, there have been nearly 5,000 daily record highs set or tied, compared to just 42 daily record lows.
evidence: He stated that MBH had given out their full data and descriptions of methods, and were not the only evidence in the IPCC TAR that recent temperatures were likely the warmest in 1,000 years; "a variety of independent lines of evidence, summarized in a number of peer-reviewed publications, were cited in support".