Comments by "Old Scientist" (@OldScientist) on "US heatwave: Millions warned to stay indoors amid record-breaking heat" video.

  1. This is nonsense. It was hotter in the recent and distant past. There is no satellite data before 1979, and there was no real network of temperature stations outside Europe and America before the 1950s, so "hottest ever" is not very long! It was much hotter in America in the 1930s, and the Vikings grew barley on Greenland, which is impossible today. This is bull meant to scare people into giving up their prosperity. Satellite data shows the Earth is continuing to warm steadily at around one-tenth of a degree Celsius per decade. If we didn't have thermometers, we couldn't even notice it.
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  2. @hosnimubarak8869  You're right of course about the last point. The temperature maxed out in 2016.
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