Ratios of record high to record low temperatures in Europe exhibit sharp increases since 2000 despite a slowdown in the rise of mean temperatures

No pause in the increase of hot temperature extremes

(2014) Sonia I. Seneviratne et al.   Nature Climate Change

The cause of the pause

(2013) Isaac M. Held   NATURE

Breaks in trends

(2013) Felix Pretis et al.   Nature Geoscience

An apparent hiatus in global warming?

(2013) Kevin E. Trenberth et al.   Earths Future

Evolution of extreme temperatures in a warming climate

(2011) C. Simolo et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Increase of extreme events in a warming world

(2011) S. Rahmstorf et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Hot Summer of 2010: Redrawing the Temperature Record Map of Europe

(2011) D. Barriopedro et al.   SCIENCE

Relative increase of record high maximum temperatures compared to record low minimum temperatures in the U.S.

(2009) Gerald A. Meehl et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS