Global warming, climate change, all these things are just a dream come true for politicians. I deal with evidence and not with frightening computer models because the seeker after truth does not put his faith in any consensus. The road to the truth is long and hard, but this is the road we must follow. People who describe the unprecedented comfort and ease of modern life as a climate disaster, in my opinion have no idea what a real problem is.
Parts of Australia recorded their highest temperature of all time this month, while across the world, the crucial 1.5°C warming limit is sliding increasingly out of reach. But much of the media no longer cares.
In January 2021, it [media climate mentions] dropped back, with 2,050 references. It then continued to slowly decline: 1,779 in January 2022, 1,913 in 2023, 1,629 in 2024, and 1,600 in 2025. …
But then came the COVID-19 pandemic …
The genocide in Gaza …
That’s surely the context for the media’s declining attention to climate. This week, the US finished its withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement … political and media insiders feel less pressure than ever to discuss climate: a topic increasingly off the global agenda.
Back in the day, many scientists thought the reality of a warming planet would be enough to force a response. That’s clearly not the case. Without a renewed movement for climate action, the temperature records will continue to fall –and nothing whatsoever will follow.
He is a former columnist for Guardian Australia, a former Breakfaster at radio station 3RRR, and a past editor of Overland literary journal. His books include Provocations: New and Selected Writing, Crimes Against Nature: Capitalism and Global Heating, Fascists Among Us: Online Hate and the Christchurch Massacre, Trigger Warnings: Political Correctness and the Rise of the Right, No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson and several others titles.
As usual greens are blaming everyone and everything but themselves.
The real reason the green agenda is collapsing is nothing bad has happened. Hitting 1.5C without any climate disasters caused a critical loss of credibility for the green movement. Their pathetic flailing about claiming the climate disaster is here, trying to redefine Australia’s beach weather Summer as a climate catastrophe, or talk up the January US snow storm, it’s like a comedy horror story reveal where the terrifying monster turns out to be a mouse.
With fresh memories of the lies and the exaggerations of the Covid lockdown, the exposure of the fake climate crisis, the exposure of 1.5C as being just an arbitrary number pulled out of someone’s proverbial, came at just the wrong time for greens. People are fed up with being frightened and misled by activists in lab coats.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Ladies and gentlemen, no matter how often the climate doomsday cult appears to have officially reached peak absurdity, along comes another “journalist” saying: Hold my beer! No longer content with blaming hurricanes, wildfires, and bad hair days on climate change, TIME magazine has now decided that football—yes, the sport where 300-pound men slam into each other at full speed—is somehow under siege from slightly warmer weather.
Ladies and gentlemen, no matter how often the climate doomsday cult appears to have officially reached peak absurdity, along comes another “journalist” saying: Hold my beer! No longer content with blaming hurricanes, wildfires, and bad hair days on climate change, TIME magazine has now decided that football—yes, the sport where 300-pound men slam into each other at full speed—is somehow under siege from slightly warmer weather.
Jeffrey Kluger’s article, How Climate Change Is Affecting the NFL, is the latest entry in the ongoing competition to see who can produce the most ridiculous climate alarmism. Let’s break this nonsense down, shall we?
OMG, It Was Hot in October!
Kluger kicks off his fever dream with a tale of a 98°F game between the 49ers and the Cardinals on October 6, 2024. Wow, stop the presses! It was hot in California in the fall! What next? Are we going to blame climate change for earthquakes too?
For some perspective, the highest temperature ever recorded in San Francisco in October was 102°F on October 5, 1987. So, a 98°F Day in 2024 is hardly unprecedented.
The author even notes that the 49ers changed their pants color to reflect more heat. That’s it. That’s the big climate catastrophe. Pants.
Of course, Kluger doesn’t mention that the hottest recorded NFL game was a 1978 season opener in St. Louis at 105°F, long before carbon hysteria took over the media. Nor does he mention that cold-weather games still happen every season, including the “Ice Bowl” of 1967 at −13°F or the 2016 Seahawks-Vikings playoff game at −6°F. Climate change sure works in mysterious ways.
A Whole 2.8°F Warmer! Over 54 Years!
According to Kluger, a survey by Climate Central (a group that exists solely to push climate fearmongering) found that NFL cities have warmed by an average of 2.8°F since 1970.
Let’s do some actual thinking here.
No mention of Urban Heat Islands and metropolitan growth.
The 1970’s was the period of the global cooling scare.
The average daily temperature can swing 20–30°F in a single afternoon.
This is what Kluger considers an emergency? At this rate, we’ll reach Florida beach weather in Buffalo sometime around the year 2500.
And even if this warming trend were accurate, have these geniuses considered indoor stadiums, cooling technologies, or the simple fact that NFL players are, by definition, peak human athletes? I promise you; a linebacker is more worried about getting blindsided by Aaron Donald than whether the temperature is 85°F instead of 83°F.
Hot Weather Is Dangerous—Unlike Football?
Kluger gravely warns us about the risks of heat exhaustion and heat stroke. Oh, you mean the risks that football players have always faced in summer training camps?
This is the same sport where:
Players suffer concussions, broken bones, torn ACLs, and spinal injuries regularly.
A quarterback played an entire game with a broken jaw.
Some guys have been knocked unconscious mid-play.
But no, the real danger is the thermometer creeping a few degrees higher. Right.
Also, he conveniently ignores the fact that cold weather is far more dangerous than heat. The most common causes of weather-related deaths in the U.S. are cold exposure and hypothermia. But since “global warming” is the villain, you won’t hear that from TIME.
More Heat Waves = More Snowstorms?
Kluger also tries to scare us with stories of a Buffalo Bills game buried under snow in December 2024.
Now, stay with me here—he claims that hotter temperatures caused more snow because the Great Lakes didn’t freeze. So let me get this straight:
Warmer weather makes things colder.
More heat leads to blizzards.
The Great Lakes didn’t freeze because of climate change… but they still managed to dump tons of snow.
By this logic, turning up your air conditioning makes your house hotter.
NFL Stadiums Need to “Go Green” (For Some Reason)
Of course, no climate propaganda is complete without plugging “green” sports stadiums. Kluger suggests that the NFL must “adjust” to climate change, as if the league isn’t already raking in billions and handling bad weather like professionals.
Here’s an idea: if the climate warriors are so concerned, why don’t they boycott the Super Bowl? After all, it’s powered by evil fossil fuels, with fans flying in on CO₂-spewing jets, eating methane-emitting hamburgers, and cheering under carbon-intensive stadium lights.
Oh, right. They won’t, because all of this is performative nonsense.
The Real Takeaway: It’s All a Grift
Let’s be honest—this article isn’t about football. It’s about shoehorning climate change hysteria into every aspect of life. The game could be played on the surface of the Sun, and these people would still find a way to blame SUVs and gas stoves.
Meanwhile, NFL teams are doing just fine:
Players train in state-of-the-art facilities with climate control.
Coaches adjust for heat like they always have.
The league makes billions, regardless of the weather.
And here’s the real kicker: the NFL is actually expanding into hotter regions. There’s a team in Las Vegas, a city that gets 120°F summers. Why? Because none of these climate scares matter in real life.
Final Score: Reality – 49, Climate Hysteria – 0
At the end of the day, the only thing heating up is the nonsense coming from mainstream media. Climate change isn’t ruining football—bad officiating and Roger Goodell are.
So, Jeffrey Kluger, thanks for the laugh. Maybe next time, try blaming climate change for Tom Brady’s retirement, the Cowboys’ annual playoff choke, or the Jets still being terrible.
The Met Office has now shredded the last bit of credibility it had.
Do they seriously expect people to believe this lie? And it is not just warmer by a few hundredths of a degree. They actually dare to claim it is a whole degree warmer than ever before.
First off, as they have now done three times in the last year, they have declared a record hot month, without even mentioning that longer running CET data shows it was much warmer in the 19thC. In this case, May 1833 was a full degree hotter. To not mention this fact is proof that the Met Office are no longer interested in facts, only political propaganda.
CET also shows that we had several similarly warm Mays in the 19thC, which raises the question – are we comparing like with like when we compare temperatures nowadays with those from 50 or 100 years ago?
Which of course brings us back to the junk nature of the Met Office’s weather station network. As we know, most of it is unfit to be used for climatological purposes, as poor siting means they can have margins of error up to 5C.
At no stage was the weather last month anything out of the ordinary. We had a few, pleasant days, but temperatures never got above the level regularly seen in other years. The highest temperature of the month on CET was only 24.3C, well below the record of 28.9C set in May 1944, and 28.6C in May 1947. There have been 33 years which recorded higher May temperatures.
And the second half of the month was distinctly cool.
Temperatures last month got nowhere near 90C. And the hot weather lasted for more than a few days. Apart from those two cool spells, the month was largely dominated by anti-cyclonic warmth. Yet according to the Met Office, May 2024 was 1.7C hotter than May 1947.
May 1953 was another hot month, but the Met Office say it was 1.9C cooler than last month:
The Met Office have argued that the warmth last month, according to their figures, was due to night time temperatures. However their data also shows a record for May based on daily max temperatures.
We are well familiar with the concerns about the accuracy of the Met Office temperature dataset. But let me give you one more example.
Ray Sanders, who has spent much time on this topic, noticed that the highest UK temperature of the day was set last week at Neatishead in Norfolk. He did not recognise this station and it was not on the Met Office’s classification list.
When he enquired with the Met Office, they told him that the station only began operations in December 2022. So their dataset now includes a station which almost certainly is in a hot spot, whether geographic or because of poor siting. And consequently, up goes the Met Office’s temperature for that part of Norfolk. (They also asked him why he was enquiring about the station classification – plainly they are desperate to stop the public finding out the truth about their stations!)
Multiply that out a hundred times, and you can quickly add a degree or two to the national temperature.
The Met Office obviously now feel emboldened enough to publish these sort of claims, no matter how outrageous. They know the public don’t believe them, but no longer care.
Finally let’s finish with the twitter commenters, nearly all of which are highly critical and incredulous:
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