U. Pennsylvania Prof Blames Summer Heat Wave on Climate Change
“This is a glimpse of not only what our future will look like, but in fact, it will look quite a bit worse than this”
Someone inevitably makes this ridiculous claim pretty much every year. Hasn’t it always been warm in summer?
The College Fix reports:
Summer heat wave due to climate change, Penn professor says
The current summer heat wave is due to climate change, a University of Pennsylvania professor told CNN.
Presidential Distinguished Professor Michael Mann said that it is currently extremely hot this week due to climate change. However, future problems can be prevented “by getting off fossil fuels.”
“This is a glimpse of not only what our future will look like, but in fact, it will look quite a bit worse than this,” Professor Mann told CNN host Brianna Keilar during an interview Monday.
“We will see more widespread, and hotter, and longer lasting heat waves in the future if we continue to heat up the planet,” Mann said. “And so all of this gets worse if we continue pumping carbon pollution into the atmosphere and warming up the planet, that’s the bad news.”
In addition to “getting off fossil fuels,” there is a “direct and immediate impact,” to bringing down carbon emissions,” he said later in the interview.
However, the warning about the heat wave needs historical context, according to a meteorologist and climatologist.
“Someone should tell these people that this is what a glimpse of SUMMER looks like,” Chris Martz wrote on X. “There is nothing unprecedented or all that unusual about this heatwave. Not by summer standards nor by June standards.”
Martz then provided data from the major cities highlighted by CNN to show how historically they have faced hotter days for the same time period.
“No daily records are in forecast for any of those locations,” Martz wrote. “This week’s [heat wave] does not compare to those of June 1936, 1944, 1953 or 1988.”
CNN’s Brianna Keilar interviewed their number one climate czar, Dr. Michael Mann from UPenn, yesterday, to discuss how this week’s “brutal” and “unprecedented” heatwave is being fueled by global warming and is a taste of our future.
“𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗴𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗽𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗻𝗼𝘁… pic.twitter.com/yrTxzkNRYC
— Chris Martz (@ChrisMartzWX) June 18, 2024
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Where do we get these idiots from (both sides of the microphone)?!
the redistribution of the american/white middle class is the goal
its working
Normal June temp in San Antonio is in the mid- to upper-90s.
Temp now is 79.
I went through USAF basic training at Lackland in June/July/August 1969. Yes, it was hot then and I’m sure it’s hot now. We drank water, took salt tablets, and didn’t practice marching or physical training after 11:00. Air conditioning? Not in our barracks!
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3723 BMTS, Flight 0730, Jul-Aug 1975. The old Korean War-era clapboard barracks between the two pedestrian overpasses, two blocks in from the perimeter fence and Southwest Military Highway.
Michael “Hockey Stick” Mann.
Isn’t he at Penn State? CNN gives his location as State College, PA.
Penn State is in State College, PA.
It’s hot because of climate change
It’s cold because of climate change
It’s a drought because of climate change
It’s rainy because of climate change
It’s snowing because of climate change
It’s not snowing because of climate change
The oceans are rising because of climate change
The oceans are warmer because of climate change
There are more hurricanes because of climate change
There are less named storms because of climate change
There are more named storms because of climate change
It’s easy to be a hockey stick expert like this clown when everything you claim is caused by climate change without any actual evidence to back it up
I keep hearing about this heat wave we’re suffering through. What I’m seeing is beautiful, warm, sunny days. It’s maybe a little warmer than usual for June, but the humidity is also lower than usual so it actually feels cooler to me than it usually does this time of year.
If this is a harbinger of things to come….please…bring it on.
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