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This is staggering. The average national temperature was broken on consecutive days, by a total of 3°F. I am a pessimist regarding the climate and I'm shocked by this.
When it's cold: 'don't be stupid, of course you can't infer anything about the climate as a whole from one-off events'

When it's hot: 'this is a wake-up call! we need to start tackling climate change immediately lest things get even worse!'

It's not that the record was broken once. It's that it keeps getting broken. Do you feel smart setting up strawmen just to knock them down?
Yes, the trend is upward, agrees with models that have much more dire projections in the near future.
How does that discount the flip side of cold weather records?
Extreme cold that is abnormal.and consistently abnormal can also be reflective of the effects of climate change. It's only the people who think snow disproves it that think this is an argument.
Ah yes, that's why they had to change it to the somewhat nebulous 'climate change' instead of 'global warming'.
Global mean temperature is increasing. Global warming is still a thing, and it's happening:

https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v4/

But I don't know. Perhaps you're more clever than NASA who examines the historical data and their fancy apparatus that carefully measures these things.

In terms of correlates to other historical measurements over longer time spans, it's pretty clear that our times are exceptional:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_temperature_record

I'm not sure what personal insights you have here to back your skepticism, but it wouldn't match the science, which is our best way of knowing anything.

Generally speaking, the cold is not record-setting whereas the heat is. It’s not that you can’t infer anything from one-off events, it’s that all the “one-off events” (which are happening more and more often) are in one direction, the direction of things getting hotter.
Here in Adelaide, South Australia, we could have had a record high minimum temperature (Actually we kind of did, West Terrace vs Kent Town), however a short burst of slightly cooler air at about 10:30pm of around 33C has masked the fact that the morning low temperature was 35C. This is probably more typical of the desert, but we're on the coast.
To give a sense of the scale of this, I've spent the last few days coughing because of the smoke from a wildfire that's burning 500 miles upwind of me. And summer has only just started.
Now more than ever a change in the way large-scale agriculture is done in Australia needs to be rethought, as this, in large part, is responsible for the inability of the land to respond to climate change. cf Charles Massy
Conservatives believe that nature is designed such that it is impossible for unregulated modern industry to impact it in ways that would be harmful to the human race.