Is one government propaganda mill being overwritten by a different government propaganda mill. Just my personal opinion, of course.

The EPA website wouldn't be my first choice for researching the climate no matter who was running it. It's a political entity more than a scientific one.

I did look at the history of weather severity quite a while back. After looking at a lot of sources and papers, I saw that the most common answer from scientists is "we don't really know for sure." Apparently there are far too many variables involved to nail the answers down. To be fair, I haven't revisited the question since then, so something new might be out there.

Unfortunately, too many people on either side are cherry-picking the data to sell the answer they want to sell. What is left out is as important as what is mentioned.

Just one example: remember the news article about the march that took place on the "warmest April 29 ever at Washington Airport?"

I looked it up:

http://www.weather.gov/lwx/dcanme#apr

April 29 was indeed a record high (91) in 2017. What the news article left out is that the day before and the day after had record highs, too (92). One in 1957, and one in 1942. The record highs for the 26th and 27th were in 1915, (94 and 95). Just for fun, look at the month of May.

This takes nothing away from the accuracy of the 2017 number. Just puts some perspective on it.