With summertime upon us, the northern hemisphere is warm again, as it’s supposed to be, and it’s going to get even hotter. Some areas have already experienced heat waves with above-average temperatures, with many locations approaching record temperatures. Some weather stations have just recorded their record-high temperatures for a given date, and there were likely even some stations that recorded the all-time highest temperature ever recorded for that location.
The climate-hysterical media have handled recent heat waves with their usual level of apocalyptic hype. Here is a recent headline from Radio France: “European Heatwave Drives World’s Second-Hottest May on Record.” Climate change is blamed, of course. Per the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, as quoted in this piece, “This phenomenon is part of the rapid warming of Europe and the long-term trend towards more frequent, more intense and earlier heatwaves.”
To those who have made climate change a foundational belief of their faith system, any heat wave is indisputable proof that global warming is real. But it’s not. Instead, it’s normal weather repackaged as climate propaganda, exploiting the statistical ignorance of the target audience, as well as that of the media pushing the climate scare.
Aside from the problem of weather stations that are compromised due to their proximity to roads and structures that retain heat, it is still a statistical certainty that, on average, there will be thousands of record-high daily temperatures in the United States each year. It is also a statistical certainty that there will be, on average, hundreds of all-time record high temperatures recorded at weather stations around the globe. (RELATED: Green Energy Reels From Major Defeats, but the Battle Continues)
In the United States, temperature records date back about 100 to 140 years, depending on location. It would be fair to say that approximately 120 years is the typical historical database for a location’s temperature data. For each station, there is a record-high temperature for each day of the year, and also a record-low temperature for each day of the year. With 365 record-high temperatures for each station, spread over 120 years, that means that each station should record about three record-high temperatures each year, with a normal distribution. If there are fewer than three record highs being recorded in a given year, that would actually be below average.
NOAA monitors a domestic database of about 15,000 weather stations across the U.S. Therefore, with each of these 15,000 weather stations expected to have, on average, three record-high temperature readings per year, there should be approximately 45,000 documented daily high-temperature records per year in the United States alone.
Beyond record daily highs, we also periodically hear the terrifying reports of an “all-time highest temperature ever” being recorded for a given location. It sounds terrifying when climate alarmists are reporting it, but again, that is hysterics, not statistics or probability. With 15,000 weather stations divided by 120 years, there should be, on average, about 125 stations in the U.S. reporting their all-time record-high temperatures each and every year.
Across the Atlantic, there are over 25,000 weather stations that constitute the European temperature database. With 25,000 stations divided by 120 years, that means there should be, on average, about 200 European weather stations reporting the all-time hottest temperature ever recorded for that location. Obviously, some years will be hotter than average, with many new records, while other years will be milder, with few new records.
The scientific illiteracy of those in the legacy media who are pushing the climate hoax was captured in this headline from last summer in the Washington Post: “Europe’s Expanding Heat Wave Fuels Record Temperatures, Even in the Alps.” While it’s predictable that you-know-what gets the blame (“The rise in temperatures and return of high readings are symptoms of human-driven climate change”), it is sadly comical that journalists at the Post somehow think that being in the Alps excludes a location from having its own record daily high temperature for each day of the year. St. Moritz is no different from any other place on Earth, in that it is likely to set three record-high daily temperatures on average each year.
Beyond the statistical inevitability of record-high temperature readings, there is another factor that is causing “record” temperatures to be recorded in the U.K. that would not have been captured in prior decades. Electronic thermometers can capture a micro-spike in temperature, producing very brief “records” that would not be captured by traditional mercury thermometers. A PhD named Eric Huxter has taken a dive into the data from the U.K. Met Office (the U.K.’s equivalent to NOAA) and discovered how flawed certain records are, because of the Met Office legitimizing micro-spikes as official temperatures for record-keeping purposes.
The highest temperature ever recorded for May 1 in the U.K. was at a London station named Kew Gardens on May 1, 2025. The temperature was 29.3°C (85°F), yet just one minute later the temperature had dropped 0.76°C (down to 83°F). Predictably, many of the extreme record-high temperatures being recorded in the U.K. are at airfields where warm blasts of exhaust from airplanes blow by, creating micro-spikes. The Met Office recorded the highest temperature ever recorded in the U.K. on July 19, 2022, at 40.7°C (105°F). The reading was at Royal Air Force Base Coningsby while three Typhoon jets were moving across the runway and tarmac. The World Meteorological Organization advises that electronic readings should be averaged over spans covering several minutes to eliminate “noise” that wouldn’t show up on traditional mercury thermometers, but the Met Office has propaganda to push, so it publishes the flawed micro-spike data as official temperatures.
It’s a near-certainty that “record” high temperatures will be recorded this year. It’s not climate change, it’s probability and statistics, along with a little bit of willfully flawed data gathering.
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