When it comes to our climate, everything is connected. And there has never been a year, and most especially a summer, that has so prominently and destructively showcased this.

Right now, wildfires are blazing across the drought-stricken western United States, overpowering firefighters in California. Earlier this summer, the already scorching Middle East saw all-time record heat. Meanwhile, from huge swaths of China to at least four states in the U.S., devastating flooding has inundated homes and uprooted lives.

And we still haven’t arrived at the peak of hurricane season.

The extreme weather events we’ve seen — and are still living through — around the world collectively bear the fingerprints of human-caused global warming. So, too, does the bevy of monthly heat records that have fallen so frequently that the news stories announcing them almost write themselves.

While each event has its own multitude of causes, from risky development practices to natural climate variability, experts say human-caused climate change is increasingly emerging from the shadows and into the forefront, making itself known as at least a drop of the fuel feeding many of these extreme events.

This is especially true with heat waves, which — along with wildfires — have been so prominent this summer. Extreme precipitation events have slightly more tenuous links to climate change, but there is still solid evidence of trends toward more rainfall coming in heavier, shorter bursts compared to longer, lighter rainstorms.

“The ‘signal’ of climate change is no longer subtle. We are seeing climate change impacts now play out, on our television screens, in the headlines, on our television sets,” said Michael Mann, director of Penn State University’s Earth System Science Center.

“Whether it’s the multitude of thousand-year flooding events we’ve seen over the past year, the massive wildfires, the strongest hurricanes in both hemispheres, etc., we are now dealing with the impacts of climate change on a daily basis,” Mann told Mashable in an email.

“What more do the critics need to see? It’s almost like someone up there is trying to tell them something…”