The climate war of exaggeration has to be stopped

Shooting wars are overt, but climate alarmists are waging war against human progress with a complicit, sensationalist meteorological media providing the ammunition—which will likely be remembered as a force that hindered humanity’s advancement as much as any armed conflict.

So here is an example of how media supplies ammo to fuel this. It comes out of what is turning into climate hysteria central, the UK.

Check this out.

First of all, 22°C is not a “heat bomb.” For those who endured the weather in the Northeast on Friday, the notion of a 22°C “heat bomb”—a term now used in the UK—was pushed into southern Virginia.

This morning, I examined global temperatures for May, and something interesting emerged, especially when considering all the talk of climate catastrophes due to warming: It’s warmest where no one lives and coolest where people do.

Take a look at this map of global temperatures.

Now compare it to population density.

Eastern South America and Southeast China are densely populated and warm, but the US, India, and Europe are relatively cool. Meanwhile, the Arctic and Antarctica, where virtually no one lives, contribute significantly to the global warmth. The global temperature is 0.42°C above average, but we can’t determine the temperature in populated areas because the site tracking this data is down. When it was operational, it relied on actual weather stations—though, as Anthony Watts has documented, even these stations are often biased toward warmer readings due to poor siting.

I’d venture to say that if we overlaid May temperatures onto a map of where life thrives, the temperatures would largely balance out.

This highlights a major issue in today’s weather and climate reporting: a lack of big-picture perspective. The UK, a strong advocate for net-zero policies, has enough trees to offset its carbon emissions. However, practices like chopping down trees in Scotland to build wind turbines undermine this. It’s the same country that’s considering spraying sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to dim the sun, seemingly disregarding the fact that it will eventually mix into the troposphere—where countries like the US have spent billions to remove it from the air. While the UK will experience unusually warm weather this week, the cold further east is far more significant from a meteorological perspective.

I haven’t seen any reports from Russia about widespread cold, but the UK media portrays a pleasant spring pattern as a “heat bomb.” This is typical of a media landscape that distorts weather and climate discussions. A friend showed me a letter his son received from Harvard, inviting him to apply and touting its efforts to improve humanity, including fighting climate change. But without a balanced perspective like the one I’m presenting here, the narrative remains skewed. Ask yourself: What’s more critical for Europe right now? The warmth in the UK or the major cold in wheat-growing regions that could impact crops?

There’s no mention of this, of course—just “heat bombs” at 22°C, proposals to spray true pollutants like SO2 into the stratosphere (where it will inevitably descend), and questionable net-zero policies in countries like the UK and Canada, which are already strongly carbon-negative. The list goes on.

Climate hysteria, climate anxiety, climate this, climate that. The climate war of exaggeration has to be stopped for the good of the planet. It’s another case of the common linkage of all the major lies that have been pushed on people over the last 10 years. At the heart of it is deception, distortion, and delusion which prey upon people and are as big an existential threat as there is. And the Phony Climate War is an example of it.