{"id":378328,"date":"2025-05-14T17:23:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T15:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=378328"},"modified":"2025-05-14T17:23:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T15:23:54","slug":"the-climate-war-of-exaggeration-has-to-be-stopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=378328","title":{"rendered":"The climate war of exaggeration has to be stopped"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Joe Bastardi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shooting wars are overt, but climate alarmists are waging war against human progress with a complicit, sensationalist meteorological media providing the ammunition\u2014which will likely be remembered as a force that hindered humanity\u2019s advancement as much as any armed conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So here is an example of how media supplies ammo to fuel this. It comes out of what is turning into climate hysteria central, the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check this out.<\/p>\n\n\n

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First of all, 22\u00b0C is not a \u201cheat bomb.\u201d For those who endured the weather in the Northeast on Friday, the notion of a 22\u00b0C \u201cheat bomb\u201d\u2014a term now used in the UK\u2014was pushed into southern Virginia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This morning, I examined global temperatures for May, and something interesting emerged, especially when considering all the talk of climate catastrophes due to warming: It\u2019s warmest where no one lives and coolest where people do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take a look at this map of global temperatures.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Now compare it to population density.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Eastern South America and Southeast China are densely populated and warm, but the US, India, and Europe are relatively cool. Meanwhile, the Arctic and Antarctica, where virtually no one lives, contribute significantly to the global warmth. The global temperature is 0.42\u00b0C above average, but we can\u2019t determine the temperature in populated areas because the site tracking this data is down. When it was operational, it relied on actual weather stations\u2014though, as Anthony Watts has documented, even these stations are often biased toward warmer readings due to poor siting.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I\u2019d venture to say that if we overlaid May temperatures onto a map of where life thrives, the temperatures would largely balance out.<\/p>\n\n\n

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This highlights a major issue in today\u2019s weather and climate reporting: a lack of big-picture perspective. The UK, a strong advocate for net-zero policies, has enough trees to offset its carbon emissions. However, practices like chopping down trees in Scotland to build wind turbines undermine this. It\u2019s the same country that\u2019s considering spraying sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to dim the sun, seemingly disregarding the fact that it will eventually mix into the troposphere\u2014where countries like the US have spent billions to remove it from the air. While the UK will experience unusually warm weather this week, the cold further east is far more significant from a meteorological perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I haven\u2019t seen any reports from Russia about widespread cold, but the UK media portrays a pleasant spring pattern as a \u201cheat bomb.\u201d This is typical of a media landscape that distorts weather and climate discussions. A friend showed me a letter his son received from Harvard, inviting him to apply and touting its efforts to improve humanity, including fighting climate change. But without a balanced perspective like the one I\u2019m presenting here, the narrative remains skewed. Ask yourself: What\u2019s more critical for Europe right now? The warmth in the UK or the major cold in wheat-growing regions that could impact crops?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s no mention of this, of course\u2014just \u201cheat bombs\u201d at 22\u00b0C, proposals to spray true pollutants like SO2 into the stratosphere (where it will inevitably descend), and questionable net-zero policies in countries like the UK and Canada, which are already strongly carbon-negative. The list goes on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate hysteria, climate anxiety, climate this, climate that. The climate war of exaggeration has to be stopped for the good of the planet. It\u2019s another case of the common linkage of all the major lies that have been pushed on people over the last 10 years. At the heart of it is deception, distortion, and delusion which prey upon people and are as big an existential threat as there is. And the Phony Climate War is an example of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shooting wars are overt, but climate alarmists are waging war against human progress with a complicit, sensationalist meteorological media providing the ammunition\u2014which will likely be remembered as a force that hindered humanity\u2019s advancement as much as any armed conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":378346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691835084,691818721,691835083,691818272,691818154,691833027],"class_list":{"0":"post-378328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-heat-bomb","9":"tag-climate-alarmists","10":"tag-climate-catastrophes","11":"tag-climate-hysteria","12":"tag-net-zero","13":"tag-weather-and-climate","15":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/428cb5e678da63e8f316391bc0d6116d.jpg?fit=2520%2C1460&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1Aq4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":333379,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=333379","url_meta":{"origin":378328,"position":0},"title":"Climate Alarmism is the existential threat to humanity","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"20\/06\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"While in France observing the 80th anniversary of D-Day and honoring the thousands of brave soldiers who gave their lives fighting the existential threat that was Nazi Germany, President Joe Biden could not help himself from descending into crass political talking points by comparing the most destructive and deadly war\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"climate alarmism\"","block_context":{"text":"climate alarmism","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=climate-alarmism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0MAVDWrk5TiZiw6PzrqdS86.jpg?fit=1200%2C813&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0MAVDWrk5TiZiw6PzrqdS86.jpg?fit=1200%2C813&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0MAVDWrk5TiZiw6PzrqdS86.jpg?fit=1200%2C813&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0MAVDWrk5TiZiw6PzrqdS86.jpg?fit=1200%2C813&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/0MAVDWrk5TiZiw6PzrqdS86.jpg?fit=1200%2C813&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":339310,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=339310","url_meta":{"origin":378328,"position":1},"title":"Anemia Would Rise in Climate Obsessed\u2019s Meatless Dystopia","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"12\/08\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Iron deficiency \u2014 and the anemia it causes \u2014 remains a persistent global health issue that can only be exacerbated by a war on meat waged by climate alarmists, whose hostility to animal protein is a manifestation of an anti-human ideology. 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