If there is one thing we Americans have learned over the past few years, it’s that liberals love panic porn — especially when it involves the weather.
It is July, and while pretty much any kindergartner — particularly those who reside in southern states — can tell you that summer is hot, NBC, with an assist from a 2022 United Nations’ report, wants you to know that, by 2070, human beings will not be able to survive the heat in the lower third of the country.
(Video: via Newsbusters)
On NBC’s “Sunday Today,” guest host Joe Fryer reported on the heatwave that has swept parts of the nation over the past few weeks.
“The human body simply can’t handle these levels of heat and will go into heat stress,” Fryer told meteorologist Angie Lassman. “With much of the country and the world experiencing these record temps, at what point do certain areas just simply become uninhabitable for humans?”
“[A]ctually probably closer than what you think,” Lassman responded. “A United Nations report released late last year says that much of the south, including areas in Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and California, will be less suitable for humans to live in by 2070, just less than 50 years from now.”
“That report also states that up to one-third of the global population will start experiencing life-threatening heat conditions,” she added, “something that we currently only see in places like the Sahara.”
In October 2022, ahead of the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 27), the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) released a report titled, “Extreme Heat: Preparing for the heatwaves of the future,” in which it predicted “a future with deadlier, more frequent, and more intense heat-related humanitarian emergencies.”
“We don’t want to dramatize it, but clearly the data shows that it does lead towards a very bleak future,” said IFRC secretary-general Jagan Chapagain, according to Phys.org.
“There are clear limits beyond which people exposed to extreme heat and humidity cannot survive,” the report warned. “There are also likely to be levels of extreme heat beyond which societies may find it practically impossible to deliver effective adaptation for all.”
More recently, according to the Wall Street Journal, “the global-warming industry has declared that July 3 and 4 were the two hottest days on Earth on record.”
Even The Journal isn’t buying it.
In a stunning opinion piece published on Friday, Steve Milloy writes, “Don’t believe it.”
https://t.co/z7wwiT7qJI The global-warming industry has declared that July 3 and 4 were the two hottest days on Earth on record. The reported average global temperature on those days was 62.6 degrees Fahrenheit, supposedly the hottest in 125,000 years. The claimed temperature was…
— Frederick Mackintosh (@bigmack600) July 8, 2023
“The reported average global temperature on those days was 62.6 degrees Fahrenheit, supposedly the hottest in 125,000 years. The claimed temperature was derived from the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer, which relies on a mix of satellite temperature data and computer-model guesstimation to calculate estimates of temperature,” Milloy writes. “One obvious problem with the updated narrative is that there are no satellite data from 125,000 years ago. Calculated estimates of current temperatures can’t be fairly compared with guesses of global temperature from thousands of years ago.”
Milloy continues:
A more likely alternative to the 62.6-degree estimate is something around 57.5 degrees. The latter is an average of actual surface temperature measurements taken around the world and processed on a minute-by-minute basis by a website called temperature.global. The numbers have been steady this year, with no spike in July.
Moreover, the notion of “average global temperature” is meaningless. Average global temperature is a concept invented by and for the global-warming hypothesis. It is more a political concept than a scientific one. The Earth and its atmosphere is large and diverse, and no place is meaningfully average.
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