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 saysThe 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.”
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