{"id":385414,"date":"2025-06-27T18:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T16:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=385414"},"modified":"2025-06-27T18:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T16:14:13","slug":"wrong-cnn-heatwaves-arent-becoming-more-frequent-or-severe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=385414","title":{"rendered":"Wrong, CNN, Heatwaves Aren\u2019t Becoming More Frequent or Severe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"723\" data-attachment-id=\"385424\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=385424\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/OIG-30-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/OIG-30-1.jpg?resize=60%2C60&amp;ssl=1 60w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/OIG-30-1.jpg?resize=550%2C550&amp;ssl=1 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/2025\/06\/wrong-cnn-heatwaves-arent-becoming-more-frequent-or-severe\/\">ClimateRealism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/author\/awatts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Anthony Watts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"672\" data-attachment-id=\"385416\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=385416\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0cnn-hot-hype.jpg?fit=907%2C843&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"907,843\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0cnn-hot-hype\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0cnn-hot-hype.jpg?fit=723%2C672&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0cnn-hot-hype.jpg?resize=723%2C672&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-385416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0cnn-hot-hype.jpg?w=907&amp;ssl=1 907w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0cnn-hot-hype.jpg?resize=300%2C279&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0cnn-hot-hype.jpg?resize=768%2C714&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the article \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/06\/23\/climate\/heat-wave-global-warming-links\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Heat waves are getting more dangerous with climate change \u2014 and we may still be underestimating them<\/a>,\u201d CNN boldly claims that human-induced climate change is making heatwaves \u201cmore common, intense and longer-lasting,\u201d and that we are likely underestimating the risk. This is false, refuted by actual long-term temperature records. The available evidence clearly suggests that while urban areas do experience warmer nights due to the well-documented&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/climateataglance.com\/climate-at-a-glance-urban-heat-islands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect<\/a>, there is no global trend of increasing heat wave frequency or intensity after accounting for urbanization, data quality, and the selective reporting that plagues much of the mainstream climate narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CNN does briefly acknowledge that overnight temperatures are increasing in towns and cities, pointing to the UHI effect as a culprit. However, they conveniently skip over the larger implication: these localized temperature increases are not evidence of a trend attributable to climate change. They are a function of sprawling urban development, asphalt, concrete, and waste heat from human activity, not a signal of global warming, much less a planetary crisis. Studies show that rural temperature stations, far from the heat-retaining concrete jungles,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.ametsoc.org\/view\/journals\/apme\/64\/5\/JAMC-D-23-0199.1.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">do not show the same rate of warming as urban stations<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/climateataglance.com\/climate-at-a-glance-u-s-heatwaves\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Climate at a Glance: U.S. Heatwaves<\/a>&nbsp;presents historical data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) which show that heat waves were far more severe in the 1930s than they are today. The number of days exceeding 95\u00b0F in the 1930s dwarfs anything seen in recent decades, as seen in Figure 1 below.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"463\" data-attachment-id=\"385419\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=385419\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-598.png?fit=624%2C463&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"624,463\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-598.png?fit=624%2C463&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-598.png?resize=624%2C463&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-385419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-598.png?w=624&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-598.png?resize=300%2C223&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Figure 1. The annual mean number of days with a daily maximum temperature \u226595\u00b0, \u2265100\u00b0 and \u2265105\u00b0 each at 828 NOAA USHCN stations with at least 100 years of daily temperature readings between 1895 and 2023. Graph by Chris Martz from NOAA data at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncei.noaa.gov\/pub\/data\/ushcn\/v2.5\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.ncei.noaa.gov\/pub\/data\/ushcn\/v2.5\/<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both the intensity and frequency of heat waves were much worse nearly a century ago. CNN chooses to ignore this broader historical context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, multiple articles on&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/2024\/06\/cnn-ignores-long-term-data-claims-heat-waves-are-becoming-more-severe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Climate Realism<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;demonstrate that the mainstream media loves to focus on short-term spikes and isolated events while completely disregarding the cooling trends and the full historical record. One article, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/2024\/06\/cnn-ignores-long-term-data-claims-heat-waves-are-becoming-more-severe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CNN Ignores Long-Term Data, Claims Heat Waves Are Becoming More Severe<\/a>,\u201d shows how CNN conveniently glosses over the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s data which contradict their claims, by showing that heat waves were far more prevalent and severe during the 1930s and the 1950s, for example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CNN\u2019s article leans heavily on attribution studies, particularly those from the World Weather Attribution (WWA) project, which claim that today\u2019s heat waves are made \u201ctens to hundreds of times more likely\u201d by climate change. These studies are based on climate model simulations, not observed temperature data or trends. The issue with attribution models, as thoroughly discussed at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2023\/07\/11\/how-heatwave-attribution-studies-are-just-climate-model-marketing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Watts Up With That<\/a>, is that they often start with the assumption that most warming is due to human activity and then \u201cdiscover\u201d that warming in their results. It\u2019s a classic case of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplypsychology.org\/confirmation-bias.html#:~:text=Confirmation%20bias%20in%20psychology%20is%20the%20tendency,the%20relevance%20of%20evidence%20that%20contradicts%20them.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">confirmation bias<\/a>&nbsp;wrapped in scientific jargon. In logic this is referred to as a logical fallacy, in particular, affirming the consequent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Climate Realism<\/em>&nbsp;has repeatedly debunked previous attribution \u201cstudies,\u201d produced by WWA in the past,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/2024\/11\/flooding-facts-drowned-by-climate-hysteria-the-bbc-ignores-spains-weather-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/2024\/04\/mainstream-media-falls-for-weather-attribution-con-again-over-dubais-flooding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/2024\/04\/wrong-bbc-and-reuters-no-evidence-proves-west-african-heatwave-is-unprecedented\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>, for example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To support its assertions about worsening heatwaves, CNN sought out the opinions from noted long-time promoters of climate alarm, Friederike Otto and Michael Mann. Otto, who is the director of WWA, told CNN that \u201cevery heatwave that is occurring today is hotter than it would have been without human-induced climate change.\u201d What else would Otto say? After all she runs the organization making the extraordinary heat wave claims, claims not supported by real-world data. Her sweeping statement is not grounded in hard observational data but rather in models that have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/climateataglance.com\/climate-models-vs-measured-temperature-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a known tendency to run hot<\/a>, consistently projecting more warming than actually observed. The fact that these models can\u2019t even accurately predict regional temperatures or temperature trends, much less individual heat waves, is conveniently omitted from CNN\u2019s coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mann, warned CNN that \u201cclimate models are likely understating the relationship between climate change and persistent summer weather extremes today and under predicting the potential for future increases in such extremes.\u201d So for Mann, flawed models that project more warming than is actually occurring are understating heat wave occurrences and severity. Yet increasing trends of either can\u2019t be found in the data. If anything, the observed evidence suggests that the impact of human greenhouse gas emissions on heat waves is overstated by the climate models WWA uses, not understated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even the sensationalized claims about European heat waves fall apart under scrutiny. As pointed out by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/2024\/06\/the-european-heat-wave-was-not-caused-by-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Climate Realism<\/a>, these events are well within the range of natural variability. When past temperature records are carefully reviewed, we find that similar or even more extreme heat events occurred long before industrial CO\u2082 emissions began to rise substantially.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moreover, CNN recycles the tired trope that heat waves are becoming more \u201cdeadly.\u201d Yet, global data consistently show that climate and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/climateataglance.com\/climate-at-a-glance-temperature-related-deaths\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">temperature<\/a>&nbsp;related deaths have plummeted over the last century, even as the population has quadrupled. Bjorn Lomborg has repeatedly illustrated, using data from the International Disaster Database, that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/2021\/01\/after-100-years-of-climate-change-climate-related-deaths-approach-zero\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deaths from weather-related events\u2014including heat\u2014are down by over 95% since the 1920s<\/a>, thanks largely to better infrastructure, forecasting, and adaptation. See Figure 2.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"547\" data-attachment-id=\"385421\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=385421\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-600.png?fit=624%2C547&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"624,547\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-600.png?fit=624%2C547&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-600.png?resize=624%2C547&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-385421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-600.png?w=624&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-600.png?resize=300%2C263&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Figure 2. The graph demonstrates a vast improvement in human mortality related to all extreme weather events over a 100-year span from 1920 to 2021. Source: Dr. Bjorn Lomborg, data from International Disaster Database published in ScienceDirect<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CNN often relies on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.preventionweb.net\/news\/blame-it-climate-change-what-attribution-studies-tell-us-and-what-they-dont\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201crapid attribution studies,\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;as it does almost exclusively in this piece, yet such studies are not real studies in the traditional sense, nor are they peer-reviewed in the traditional sense. Attribution studies are rushed out in rapid fashion in the hours or days following an event, to push the narrative that climate change is responsible for a particular incident. They are not careful analyses, examining whether climate change played a role in the event. The latter type of study takes time and detailed research, not the click of a button on a computer with the built-in assumption that climate change contributed to an event with the only question being how much. Attribution \u201cscience,\u201d is not science at all as it is currently constituted, rather it is a tool designed to reinforce a narrative, not to objectively investigate the cause of weather events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recent heat events pale in comparison to the extended heat waves experienced during the \u201cdust bowl\u201d decade of the 1930s and extended heat waves in 1950s. The cherry-picked comparisons CNN uses actively distort the public\u2019s understanding of climate and weather history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This isn\u2019t the first time CNN has played fast and loose with climate data. They\u2019ve been called out before, including on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2024\/05\/15\/cnn-misleads-again-on-heatwaves-ignoring-historical-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Watts Up With That<\/a>, for exactly this type of fear-driven reporting that ignores long-term records in favor of flashy headlines. CNN\u2019s persistent misrepresentation of climate data suggests that accuracy is less important to them than sensationalism. Perhaps that\u2019s because fear sells, but it certainly doesn\u2019t inform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ultimately, CNN\u2019s reporting here is a disservice to public understanding. Their reliance on shaky models, their neglect of historical context, and their failure to address the well-known Urban Heat Island effect all point to an agenda-driven narrative rather than serious journalism. If CNN truly cared about informing their audience, they would have corrected these errors by now. Instead, they keep peddling the same fearmongering stories, perhaps because admitting otherwise would undercut the very crisis they\u2019ve worked so hard to sell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the article \u201cHeat waves are getting more dangerous with climate change \u2014 and we may still be underestimating them,\u201d CNN boldly claims that human-induced climate change is making heatwaves \u201cmore common, intense and longer-lasting,\u201d and that we are likely underestimating the risk. This is false, refuted by actual long-term temperature records. The available evidence clearly suggests that while urban areas do experience warmer nights due to the well-documented Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect, there is no global trend of increasing heat wave frequency or intensity after accounting for urbanization, data quality, and the selective reporting that plagues much of the mainstream climate narrative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":385424,"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":[691819134,691818056,691818153,691819743,691819043,691836106,691818236,691821016,691821374],"class_list":{"0":"post-385414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-climate-alarmism","9":"tag-climate-change","10":"tag-climate-models","11":"tag-climate-propaganda","12":"tag-cnn","13":"tag-friederike-otto-and-michael-mann","14":"tag-heatwaves","15":"tag-national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration-noaa","16":"tag-urban-heat-island-uhi-effect","18":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/OIG-30-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1Cgm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":407122,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=407122","url_meta":{"origin":385414,"position":0},"title":"The Guardian Is Wrong: Cities Are Hotter Because of the UHI Effect, Not Increased CO\u2082","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"08\/10\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The Guardian published an article, \u201cWorld\u2019s major cities hit by 25% leap in extremely hot days since the 1990s,\u201d asserting that global warming has caused a sharp rise in the number of extremely hot days in cities worldwide, citing an International Institute for Environment and Development analysis that claims urban\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"1540 megadrought\"","block_context":{"text":"1540 megadrought","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=1540-megadrought"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0AQPKDRdw0NUnHkE5lEr4_zU5Od109A6VZuKSZb7d9ssAuE9rQRwSdrBWJqxKvZ7YHap1bJ-lm4Yy8L9oX72OAw9rW1g20gvm-mxuJWuDwv6VlgisSfWisgrHjDi3yZmB-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C648&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0AQPKDRdw0NUnHkE5lEr4_zU5Od109A6VZuKSZb7d9ssAuE9rQRwSdrBWJqxKvZ7YHap1bJ-lm4Yy8L9oX72OAw9rW1g20gvm-mxuJWuDwv6VlgisSfWisgrHjDi3yZmB-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C648&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0AQPKDRdw0NUnHkE5lEr4_zU5Od109A6VZuKSZb7d9ssAuE9rQRwSdrBWJqxKvZ7YHap1bJ-lm4Yy8L9oX72OAw9rW1g20gvm-mxuJWuDwv6VlgisSfWisgrHjDi3yZmB-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C648&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0AQPKDRdw0NUnHkE5lEr4_zU5Od109A6VZuKSZb7d9ssAuE9rQRwSdrBWJqxKvZ7YHap1bJ-lm4Yy8L9oX72OAw9rW1g20gvm-mxuJWuDwv6VlgisSfWisgrHjDi3yZmB-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C648&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0AQPKDRdw0NUnHkE5lEr4_zU5Od109A6VZuKSZb7d9ssAuE9rQRwSdrBWJqxKvZ7YHap1bJ-lm4Yy8L9oX72OAw9rW1g20gvm-mxuJWuDwv6VlgisSfWisgrHjDi3yZmB-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C648&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":209942,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=209942","url_meta":{"origin":385414,"position":1},"title":"Was It Hotter In 1911?","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"23\/07\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"By Paul Homewood https:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/about-us\/press-office\/news\/weather-and-climate\/2022\/july-heat-review There has inevitably been a lot of apoplectic reporting about this week\u2019s heatwave in Britain. 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