One Guy Shows Chart To Counter Those Who Claim Climate Change is Overhyped

Recently, I have been posting quite a bit on the seemingly endless heatwaves spread all across the northern hemisphere of our plant this summer. But there is a reason for this. It seems that climate change deniers - and there are far too many of those, frankly - jump on the opportunity to label an unseasonably cool day as proof that climate change is a hoax. But then, summer after summer, they seem to fall silent when ridiculously long and intense heat waves produce record hot temperatures that surpass records established just in recent years, which suggests that, indeed, temperatures seem to be rising worldwide. 

In Britain, where they have experienced some of those new record hot temperatures and conditions, it became popular for some to suggest that, in fact, June of 1976 also saw unusually hot conditions and heat waves. This was meant to minimize the threat that the intense heat waves that we are living through are not depressing indicators of climate change, but rather, just a natural phase. These kinds of things just happen every now and then, you know? Just shrug and stop trying to alarm people by suggesting that this kind of heat is unusual, or perhaps not fully natural.

So one guy, who got tired of hearing these detractors, decided to show a chart comparing the month of June 1976 with present realities. And if anything, this chart is somehow even more alarming than the scorching heat waves and stunning wildfires raging across Europe, which climate deniers are busy explaining away as just some kind of regular cycle, some kind of normal realities, when they quite clearly seem to be anything but. Here is what he posted, including the chart:

Will Norman @willnorman 

People keep telling me that because the UK had a heatwave in 1976, climate change is overhyped.   

So here’s the global heat anomaly maps from June 1976 and June 2022.

https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/maps/

https://twitter.com/willnorman/status/1548547271725240323

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