Hot Hyperbole

Mark Twain once quipped, “Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid." This quote is analogous to the intense noise of human-induced climate change. When you say it an immeasurable number of times, with high levels of frequency and hold protests in abundance, people might, after a while, believe it.

I have often written about the big lie, or what Nazi Germany’s Adolf Hitler, in his book Mein Kampf, called “große Lüge“ and explained it as a political propaganda technique. Does it work? A whole nation was deceived by it.

I checked the temperatures in Washington, D.C. on June 24, 2025. It was 37°C (98.6°F) with a low of 26°C (78.8°F), with the weather being sunny. The heat index was also high, with temperatures reaching up to 105 in the region. The justification for my curiosity was that we had a frost warning in the Snake River Valley of Idaho. While the frost condition did not materialize, our morning started chilly at 35°F (1.67°C) with a high of 68°F (20°C) that afternoon. Needless to say, early morning coffee outside did not materialize on that day either.

The other reason was that on or about that date, a heat wave developed on much of the east coast of the USA. Taking full advantage, the legacy news promoted climate change as the sole culprit. CNN writes a tale entitled “Heat waves are getting more dangerous with climate change — and we may still be underestimating them.”

On the advocacy front, if global warming is involved, we should have stifling temperatures in Idaho as well. Instead the russet potatoes are doing just fine. Thank you very much.

The legacy news turns a continuous blind eye to statistical evidence such as the graph below. It illustrates the heat waves and the number of hot days from 1895 through 2023. The 1930s and 1950s obliterate the media’s constant whimpering.

Irrespective of evidence, CNN writes, “In short, climate change is causing heat waves to become more common, intense and longer-lasting. They are also hitting both earlier and later in the warm season, and in many parts of the world are becoming more humid, too, which makes them more dangerous.”

They further write, “In the US, heat waves are the deadliest form of extreme weather.“ This is a deranged statement on many fronts since, naturally, extreme weather like extreme cold, hurricanes, and tornadoes kill more people than heat, yet CNN appears not to have the graph shown below. These deaths, tabulated worldwide by the nonpartisan OFDA/CRED International Disaster Data are from 1920 onward.

CNN relied on two climate scientists. The first was Friederike Otto, director of the World Weather Attribution (WWA) project, an organization that strictly uses climate model simulations, not observed temperature data or trends. I have written ad nauseam on the capriciousness of climate models and how they are massaged and manipulated from raw data received from fraudulent and heat-influenced weather stations, and are proven falsified when compared to historically observed temperatures.

The other scientist is the infamous and much scandalized Michael Mann. As I wrote in Abusive Litigation, “This story did bring to mind two defamation and libel lawsuits made by Michael Mann, Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State and much-discredited scientist for his creation of the long-term hockey stick temperature graph using proxies such as tree rings, ice cores, corals, and lake sediments. On behalf of advocate climate change scientists everywhere, the temperature graph conveniently eliminated the Medieval Warm Period (WMP). Mann’s “trick” became legendary even bringing out a song when his study evidenced that the temperatures should continue downward in the 20th century, but to conceal the decline he merely and deceptively entered actual temperatures.

Mann sued climatologist the late Dr. Tim Ball and journalist Mark Steyn for defamation, losing both suits by refusing to provide his raw data. Dr. Ball said of Mann, “He should be in the state pen, not Penn State”. I have often said, “The color of a person’s skin doesn’t matter, just the thickness of it.” This idiom appears to be apropos of Michael Mann.

Ironically, during cold snaps, the presses go silent. If the wintry conditions persist for any length of time, global warming in some warped way is still issued a citation as the perpetrator.