Some cold water for eco warriors: This heat wave isn’t that abnormal

A heat wave this week in the Northern Hemisphere has set off the “climate crisis” cabal telling us that the end is nigh unless we hand over our car keys to Al Gore and John Kerry.

“Record-breaking heat,” say the headlines, with eye-popping temperatures reported for specific locales in Europe and some parts of the American Southwest.

It is “one of the most intense [heat waves] of all time,” according to the Italian health ministry in a typical claim being reported this week.

This current flurry of weather hype comes hard on the heels of the recent claim that June was the hottest on record, and the “unofficial” finding that the Earth “could be” experiencing its hottest year in the last 125,000 years.

A closer look at the data shows that most of these headlines are false or grossly misleading.

But the headlines will be published anyway, because keeping the underlying cause of climate panic at full boil is the prime cause of the climate campaign.

For evidence of this bold charge, look no further than Paul Krugman’s latest New York Times column, which bears the title, “Why We Should Politicize the Weather.”

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