Comments by "Old Scientist" (@OldScientist) on "Why are countries around the world experiencing excessive heat? | BBC News" video.

  1. Heat waves have not been increasing in intensity or frequency in the United States, which has by far the best meteorological data both spatially and temporally. Data from NOAA's Climate Reference Network shows no sustained increase in daily high temperatures in the United States since 2005 when that network began. In recent decades in the United States, heat waves have been far less severe than they were in the 1930s. At that time Heatwaves were more than 6 times worse with greater frequency and covering a larger area than the last decade (EPA). The most severe heatwave year was 1936, and was about 13 times worse than current. In 2023 only 4 US states have achieved higher temperatures than 1936. Many states in 1936 achieved temperatures 15° hotter than the present. The all-time high temperature records set in most states occurred in the first half of the twentieth century. This is shockingly bad reporting by the BBC.
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  2. This climate report is propaganda. The climate attribution studies are based on the relative frequency of daily temperatures in the current climate and in a world without human-caused climate change. Unfortunately, one cannot prove that changes in the climate are man-made, but here it is presented as a fact. To provide proof of this one would need to observe another Earth-like planet to which no extra CO2 had been added. This is obviously impossible. It is untestable. It is unverifiable. It is not a fact. It is not Science.
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