The publication of the The Physical Science Basis of Climate Change was during the Northern Hemisphere summer, where there was a notable amount of extreme weather events such as a Western North America heat wave, flooding in Europe, extreme rainfall events in India and China, and other events such as wildfires.[1][13] Some scientists are describing these extreme weather events as leading to doubt of the rate of emergence of extreme events in the models used for writing the report, with the lived experience proving more severe than the consensus science.[13]