Is it just me?
Or have you noted the increase in wildfires, droughts, heat waves, floods, record temperatures and other severe weather occurrences this summer all over the N hemisphere? Western US, Greece, UK, Sweden, Japan, Siberia and many other places...Unlike the Arctic ice data I usually post here this may be just coincidental, anecdotal, or a selection effect, or maybe even deliberate cherry-picking, but it looks really unusual and severe.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/27/extreme-global-weather-climate-change-michael-mann