It was widely reported recently that July 4th, 2023 was the hottest day in Earth’s recorded history.

Paulo Ceppi, a climate scientist at London’s Grantham Institute stated: “It hasn’t been this warm since at least 125,000 years ago, which was the previous interglacial.” And, of course, it was reported that it was our fault due to our “sins of emission.”

This didn’t meet the smell test for the scientists at the CO2 Coalition. We know that previous warm periods were warmer than our modern temperatures. For example, during the Roman Warm Period there was citrus being grown in the north of England and barley was grown by Vikings on Greenland 1,000 years ago. Why aren’t they grown there now? It’s quite simple: Lower modern temperatures.

So, here at the CO2 Coalition, we did what scientists are trained to do:

We looked at the available data. Our Science and Research Associate Byron Soepyan reviewed temperature data from the US Historical Climatology Network and found that both the number of weather stations reporting temperature over 100 degrees F and the Maximum Average Temperature for July 4th were slightly declining since the record began in 1895 - not increasing - as Ceppi claimed.

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Icecap notes:

The media and the alarmists jumped on forecasts for the hottest summer ever for the US and globe but it has been cold in Russia, India, China, and the US (warm in Canada) in June.

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The warmists and their compliant media which had been all over the drought and heat in recent summers in the west, largely ignored the record snows in the. west where ski areas in California and Utah had as much as 900 inches of snow and skiing will continue into August.

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See the history of surface temperatures and how it has evolved from serious scientific study to political driven folly here

See the true heat story in detail here.

See this post reacting to total BS from the UN about the hottest ever summer.

Tony Heller shows it is actually in terms of extreme heat (100 degree temperatures), the coolest summer in the entire record.

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