Each summer, whenever there is a heat wave, we are likely to see headlines touting the weather as evidence of global warming. But what do the data actually look like if you take a historical perspective? This Watts Up With That post provides a good overview of U.S. heat wave data. Here are some of the charts. This is from the EPA, the U.S. Annual Heat Wave Index from 1895-2020:
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3 signs the climate op-ed you re reading is full of it
The Camp Fire burning in California in 2018.
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Shoddy climate opinion articles are like zombies.
Washington Post opinion section on May 14, was written by a Fox News contributor and political columnist at the
Post with the headline, An Obama scientist debunks the climate doom-mongers. Â
There s actually only one person implied as a doom-monger in the opinion article â the current presidential envoy for climate, John Kerry, who s not much of a doomist, but does aim to fulfill the Paris Agreement, the United Nations climate pact agreed upon by all the world s nations. Of course, most climate scientists, like those who create deeply vetted climate reports for the UN, aren t doom-mongers. Just the opposite: Climate scientists