Mr Norman gets high marks for employing boomer rock songs, and the woke verbing of the word "privilege." But he stumbles on the dismount by quantifying the deniers as "mostly," tacitly admitting that the environmentalists are in the minority, thereby garnering weak scores. What could have been a great piece of propaganda, it ultimately fails.
Most of these “record breaking temps” are from areas where the weather stations were once rural in nature but urban sprawl has taken the once push, green areas and turned it to concrete and asphalt heat sinks.
Airports are the most notorious.
Asphalt and jet engine exhaust, anyone?
Tony Norman is an idiot if he believes that the US can destroy our way of life and “save the Earth”, while China, India, Russia, Africa etc just keep chugging along.
I call bullshit
I believe that burning fossil fuels does cause some problems. But I also believe that the benefits outweigh the problems. Much of our first world standard of living is attributable to our use of fossil fuels.
Sri Lanka recently chose to ban fertilizers made from fossil fuel. Anyone who’s not an idiot could have predicted the results.
Ironically, pollution is shade. We removed much of it by reducing coal use, controlling forest fires, high bypass jet turbines and catalytic converters. So now it gets warmer.
10.23 years left?
IT’S. EFFING. SUMMER!
CC
When cable TV first hit, we had over the air stations, a few public access channels, and special primitive text crawls slowly revealing the baseball scores, stock numbers, and weather.
When I babysat, I would watch those numbers run through. I live in Phoenix now, and even then I remember the Phoenix numbers touching 120.
I also remember Connecticut hitting 100+ every so often (one time in the ‘90s, my girlfriends employers scooted back to FL because CT got too hot). I remember 70 degrees in early January in CT in the ‘80s. It is no hotter now on average than it was then.
Think about this. Every so often, you will hear an announcement that this was the hottest June whatever in 100 years. Think. There are 365 days in a year. Random chance alone would dictate that 3-4 days a year will be the “hottest” in the last 100 years. It means nothing.
This is bull****. I am pretty old, and we have had triple digit temps in Texas all my life. The hottest summer ever in Texas was 1980.
I was growing up in Lawton, OK in the sixties and I remember 3 digit temperatures every summer for at least three weeks of the year.
We didn’t have air conditioning for a good portion of that time.
Not quite old enough...
The hottest decade in USA recorded history was the 1930s.
Dust Bowl, terrible drought, and also the worst Depression in USA history.
Speaking of Joni Mitchell, don’t forget one of her other songs...”Twisted”...with the following lyrics;
= = = = =
My analyst told me
That I was right out of my head
But I said dear doctor
I think that it’s you instead
Because I have got a thing
That’s unique and new
To prove it I’ll have
The last laugh on you
‘Cause instead of one head
I got two
And you know two heads are better than one
“ Many of us are old enough to remember a time when triple digit temperatures outside of Death Valley was considered freakish…”
He says he’s a boomer. If so, he has serious problems with his memory.
Growing up in Iowa, the state fair was always accompanied by 100 degree days.