Maybe a big OT for this thread, but less so than for other recent threads:
Brian Dodge, on RC, did what I thought was a neat “quick analysis” of the question of temperature records and the temporal distribution thereof:
I then chimed in with the opinion that you should expect to see declining numbers of records in the absence of a temperature trend over time:
I wonder if a past post here has considered this question in more depth? Or if a future one might do so?