Mother Nature speaks to us through our measurements of her actions whether those be counting instances of extreme weather or measuring temperatures, sea level rise or snow cover. We track these over time to see what is changing by observing the trends.
The trends indicate the world is a little warmer now than at the end of the Little Ice Age in 1850 but Mother Nature has become gentler with her deliverance of extreme weather. The temperature rise of the late twentieth century has ceased for the last twenty years - a little known fact rarely appearing in the MSM.
Some recent evidence of her beneficence appear below.