From CFACT

By Joe Bastardi

I never block anyone unless I come across situations where my intent is being twisted, or if I sense the person does not consider all the facts.

In any case, someone commented that I was politicizing the heat.  I would have let him go, except he referred to me via a less-than-pleasant term, so I figured he was one of the many haters that I know are trolling me.  I just never look, but if I happen to catch something, I sometimes react.

But it is political—and I didn’t make it that way. Once again, they’re barging into my house by politicizing it. It’s like inviting someone in, only to have them dump garbage all over your living room. That house is weather and climate.

It’s hard to listen to this stuff when I know the people saying it are nothing more than what the late William Gray called “climate pimps”—exploiting weather and climate to push their own agenda and preying on those who don’t have the chance to see the full picture.

I wrote this a while ago, because I want my side of this climate debate to know: these people are not going away.   You can read about it here

Climate exaggerators won’t go away

But let’s go abroad to the tremendous heat in Europe, which, because I knew the variables were coming together with this- all of them natural- I tried to warn them.

The fact that they failed to prepare their own population for this represents incompetence on such a scale that I’ve concluded it was intentional. It’s a deliberate strategy to advance a warped political agenda that wrongly blames things which were never the actual source of the problem.

This was the warning issued to them June 6

The reasons are entirely natural, which I am not going into now, but what didn’t they get about comparing the summer to 2003, which should be etched in their minds?

So let me tell you what their strategy is: it’s what we are seeing in the states with these leftist climate pushers.

Again, I did not politicize the heat — the people closing power plants did.

This is the United States in 2026. We should not be seeing power blackouts during just three days of excessive heat (which, by the way, will break early next week). In fact, by Monday afternoon, temperatures in New York City could be as far below normal as they are currently above normal in the core of the heat wave.

But if you deliberately sacrifice reliable power plants at the altar of renewable energy — sources that are often unreliable during major heat waves due to light winds or darkness and are simply not ready to carry the load — then trash the very plants that used to keep air conditioners running reliably; whose fault is that? It’s the fault of the people who pushed these policies.

Look at Florida. They have more people and higher demand, yet their grid doesn’t collapse every day because they haven’t shut down their power plants. If New York still had the generating capacity it had just ten years ago, it could handle this heat wave without issue.

Steve Goreham has been warning about exactly this for years, and what’s happening is downright scary. Instead of adapting, we’re creating problems that punish people and spread shared misery. The worst part is this should not be happening. The cause is not weather — it’s a political, non-weather event: the closure of power plants.

This has left the most vulnerable among us exposed. They create the problem, blame the resulting heat on climate change, and then double down with more demands and controls. Get used to it, because most Americans have no idea what shape our grid is actually in.

The states that will do well are those that use common sense, maintain reliable power, and focus on adaptation rather than ideology.

The same kind of agenda insanity is what you see in France.  And guess what, it could get even worse for them this winter.  Last winter, despite turning out warmer than average, natural gas came close to running out. There are some El nino winters in Europe that are quite cold. Example: 09-10

Last winter was not nearly as cold

With the added demand, they would be in serious trouble if they face a winter like 2009–10.

The good news is twofold: first, I don’t believe that’s going to happen right now, and second, the United States — with Trump-style ramped-up LNG exports — is in a position to help them even more.

So instead of blaming the US for problems they created with their own insane climate policies, they should be thanking us for bailing them out. The hypocrisy of this crowd is limitless.

If they truly want to point fingers over excessive CO₂ emissions, they should look at China — not the United States — which is pumping far more into the atmosphere.

What this really looks like is a deliberate pattern: create the problem, force the misery onto the people, then blame targets that had nothing to do with it. Meanwhile, make sure the public never hears the full story so they quietly accept it.

While I have you here, our hurricane impact forecast has one area we are worried about with higher than average activity in what will be a below average year overall

New England has not seen a landfalling hurricane since 1991 (Hurricane Bob).

The common thread running through the leftist climate cabal is raw hypocrisy — and Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse practices it as well as anyone. He repeatedly claims that hurricanes are getting worse, yet for Rhode Island the opposite is true: the state averaged a hurricane every seven years from 1938 to 1991, and has had none since.

Despite saying they are worse,  he aggressively pushes for wind turbines that could shatter in a major storm, sending countless sharp pieces washing up on southern New England beaches and damaging fishing and tourism. On top of that, the average lifespan of a wind turbine is only 18–22 years — and no one has a good answer for how to recycle them.

So if WeatherBell.com’s concerns about the current pattern prove correct, who will be the first to scream “climate change”?

How is that not political

And the solar panels replacing areas that were natural or green before.  One thing over parking lots or on roofs. But look at this in Brussels

From @Electroversenet

·Europe’s red heat maps show the Urban Heat Island effect, not climate change. Copernicus satellites recorded a land-surface temperature gap of about 23C between urban areas and nearby forests. In Belgium, the city of Brussels reached 47.4 °C (117.3°F), while the adjacent Sonian Forest sat near 24.5 °C (76.1°F).

Every one of those solar deserts — they are not farms — is driving local temperatures well above what they would naturally be.

Here’s a clear example (not with solar deserts but with green vegetation) showing how genuine green areas help prevent heat buildup. Over these solar deserts, temperatures can hit 60°C in places that would otherwise be 30–40°C cooler.

What is the common denominator?

A political ideology that creates the problem by refusing to adapt, forces people to suffer, and then blames it on something that arguably has little to no impact.

If you had the same level of urban buildup during the deadly 1911 heat wave that killed 41,000 people, it would likely have been just as hot — or even hotter.

These people are not going away.  They operate on deception, distortion, and delusion.  And in this soundbite society, with the media somehow never wanting to look at the whole picture, they understand how to keep doing this.

Is there a solution?

After all these years, I’ve come to realize I can’t view this as simply “winning” or “losing.” All I can do is try to show the full picture and take solace in the fact that — whether you agree with me or not — at least you now see the bigger context. From there, I hope you’ll go look into it more on your own.

I’ve long believed that the left’s attempt to control the climate is their ultimate nail in the coffin of freedom. I think they know this perfectly well and see it as the path to ultimate control. And like all fanatics throughout history, entrenched in their invincible ignorance, they will simply double down.