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Comment by sparkzilla

So much confirmation bias. I haven't looked into Germany, but the French heatwave -- which is mentioned in the article -- has almost the same record temperatures as were recorded in 1930, 1870, 1773 and 1718, when, presumably, there was much less CO2. [1]

The other day's record-setting France temperature of 115F was recorded in Toulouse, where the temperature rose for one hour above the record set in 1923. Hardly conclusive proof of anything. [2]

In Paris, the heatwave's hottest day was 96F. Paris has had 164 days since the year 1900 hotter than that, including seven days over 100F.

These extremes are hardly new. Weather is not climate. Stop giving power and money to scaremongering media and politicians.

[1] https://realclimatescience.com/2019/06/50c-in-france/ [2] https://realclimatescience.com/2019/06/the-footprint-of-glob...

parent sparkzilla 7 years ago

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