The “Hottest June on Record” – Watts Up With That?

From the DAILY SCEPTIC

by David Craig

In an article I wrote for the Daily Sceptic on June 20th 2024 I predicted:

As we all shiver in the autumnal weather during what is meant to be summer and some of us have even turned our central heating back on or continued using our winter duvets, there is one certainty – in a few weeks time, the good folk at Met Office and the BBC will tell us that we’ve just had the “warmest June on record”. After all, the Met Office and the BBC made the same claim about appalling April and miserable May.

In the article I proposed three possible tricks which the Met Office and the BBC could use to justify their claim of June being “the hottest ever”:

• Will they have the gall to say that June in the U.K. was the warmest on record even though everybody else knows it wasn’t?
• Or will the Met Office and the BBC choose somewhere which had a bit of decent weather – perhaps Greece or Spain or India – to justify their climate catastrophism?
• Or will they instead try to fob us off by claiming that, although June in the U.K. was a disaster weatherwise, global temperatures (if such a thing can even be measured) were at record levels?

Well, just as I predicted, we’ve been told that June was the hottest on record: From the Mail: ‘Last month was officially the hottest June on record‘.

To justify this claim, the ‘experts’ used the third trick: “claiming that, although June in the U.K. was a disaster weatherwise, global temperatures (if such a thing can even be measured) were at record levels.”

The key words are “on record”. What the ‘scientists’ used as the start of records this time is the year 1980 – a few years after satellites began to be used to measure the Earth’s temperature. Before the late 1970s, there was no way of measuring the Earth’s temperature as temperatures were not recorded in many places.

But let’s remind ourselves of what happened to the Earth’s climate in the 1960s and 1970s. Temperatures were so low that even the climate-catastrophist Guardian newspaper predicted a new Ice Age:

Crop failures and mass starvation were expected:

The CIA was commissioned to write a report for the U.S. President about the consequences of the coming Ice Age:

And the experts worried that the global cooling would never stop:

Of course, the predicted Ice Age never happened and, quite naturally, the cooling 1960s and 1970s have been followed by a period of warming. The climate catastrophists have never got around to explaining to us how global temperatures could have cooled for around 20 years in the 1960s and 1970s while levels of atmospheric CO₂ were increasing. I guess that’s a question we’re not supposed to ask, otherwise we might conclude that the climate king has no clothes.

Moreover, there are strong indications that the scorching hot 1920s and 1930s, the years of the U.S. “Dustbowl” featured in John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath, were much hotter than today’s supposedly “record” temperatures:

It was predicted that sea levels would rise 40 feet and half of England would disappear beneath the waves:

Because the glaciers and ice caps would melt:

Just to conclude, there’s one more of many charts which suggest that the 1920s and 1930s, when atmospheric CO₂ levels were the lowest they’ve been in the last 100 or so years, were much hotter than today’s supposedly “record” temperatures. That’s the chart of the acreage of forest fires in the U.S.:

Was June 2024 really the hottest since records began as our rulers claim? I’ll leave that up to you to decide.

David Craig is the author of There is No Climate Crisis, available as an e-book or paperback from Amazon.