How the lies get injected into the narrative…
Heat Wave Sets Off New Round Of ‘Climate Crisis’ Lies
There’s a summer heat wave going on, which gives journalists the opportunity to fill up their stories with climate change boilerplate. It no longer matters whether any of it is true. Just the opposite, in fact. If you point out the truth, you’re accused of being a denier.
Sure, the data doesn’t show an increase in the number of heat waves, or hurricanes, or tornadoes, or wildfires. Yet every time one or the other strikes, the press robotically connects that event to “climate change.”
And so, true to form,
every story about the current heat wave says that climate change is to blame.
Axios, which is a bellwether for liberal conventional wisdom,
asserts that “climate change greatly increases the likelihood of heat waves, as well as their intensity and duration.”
Then look at the chart below which tracks the number of heat waves each year going back to 1895.
Notice anything? To our eye,
there’s no discernible trend at all. Particularly when you consider that the truly terrible heat waves occurred in the 1930s, long before human activity could have had any meaningful effect on global climate.
Then there’s this whopper of a lie in the Axios story:
“Why it matters: Extreme heat is the top weather-related killer in the U.S.”
The story links to a Weather.gov page, which says right at the top that “Extreme heat is the number one weather-related killer.”
But the very next sentence takes that back, saying “Extreme heat and humidity is
one of the leading weather-related killers in the United States.”
The truth is that extreme cold, not heat, is more lethal, as data from the Environmental Protection Agency (the biggest climate crisis propagandist of them all) make clear.
https://issuesinsights.com/2024/06/19/heat-wave-sets-off-new-round-of-climate-crisis-lies/