I think I mentioned this earlier in the week, but I can never say it enough in case someone missed the privilege of hearing my opinion – I hate summer.
HATESES IT
Now that the air is clear, the fact that the solstice has passed and we are well into the Dog Days of July, we are also being treated to the annual summer ritual of:
OMG WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE OF RECORD-BREAKING HEAT ELEVENTY!!!!
Every year, without fail and usually without any real basis in fact or perspective, the hyperbole goes into overdrive. The summer of 2025 is no different.
For example, last night, the dapper weather chap on the CBS Evening News, Lonnie Quinn, did his schtick to a scary intro talking about near-record-breaking temperatures threatening some part of the country.
Not record-breaking, but nearly so.
Doesn’t that just mean it’s a little hotter than normal summer hot? Well, yes, it does.
That’s not to say there aren’t going to be scorching days, and stretches of ‘OMG, this is awful‘ (we just went through a patch of those), but the world’s not coming to an end, and it’s irritating to have everyone act as if this is all new. Our forecasted hottest day this week, with pretty ghastly predicted triple-digit heat indices thanks to the humidity, never broke the local records, and even stayed a few toasty degrees shy. ‘Breaking’ a record is revisiting and besting something that happened previously.
The record highs, by the way, for Mobile and Pensacola had been set not in the boiling 2020s, but back in 1907 and 1897, respectively.
That had to suck.
But as with most things, it simply proves there is little new under the sun.
Except for the color you paint the map to make it look worse, and like it’s never happened before.
Maybe if they did the whole map in red it would be scarier. pic.twitter.com/w0TUxueIpm
— Yo, Mel!!! 🪻 (@YoMelToo) July 18, 2025
There’s also new data available on actual weather and climate deaths. It is record-setting, and will assuredly be disturbing to some people.
New Record Set for Deaths From Climate and Weather Disasters
During the first half of 2025, a new record was set for the number of deaths caused by climate and weather disasters. Can you guess what that record was?
If you read left-wing media sources, and believe anything they say, you might think that the recent record has something to do with a large and growing number of deaths. Recent articles in sources like CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, and CBS News all explicitly claim that climate change is making weather events “deadlier,” or leading to increasing numbers of deaths, or some variation of that same message. I’m sure if you checked thirty such “mainstream” news sources over the past year, all thirty of them would have pieces parroting that same narrative.
Therefore you might be surprised by the actual record that has been set: The first half of 2025 (January to June) has seen the fewest number of deaths from climate and weather disasters of any first half year this century.
Charts are great.
Did you hear this reported anywhere?
It is likely that the first half of 2025 has seen the fewest deaths related to extreme weather of any half-year in recorded human history
Great story from @RogerPielkeJr https://t.co/IcfQzQbLAh pic.twitter.com/ogO753k9yl
— Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) July 21, 2025
I also had a good time following meteorologist Ryan Maue’s in-depth analysis of the historic El Niño warming spike of 1877 and cannot imagine how miserable that was…
In order to understand the recent El Niño warming spike in mid-2023, we can go back to 1877 when a similar yet more exceptional warming event occurred at the very tail end of the Little Ice Age.
2 in 150 years event … not unprecedented and largely natural variability. https://t.co/bJNTIeRo4W
— Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) July 21, 2025
…until I read a remarkable passage in a book I’m currently knee-deep in. The laments sounds awfully familiar, don’t they?
Lolling in mid-August at Crossroads, twenty miles from Philadelphia, the American troops dodged much of the worst of the strength-sapping, sleep-stealing summer of 1777. After a week of moderate heat, the mercury struck the 80 degree mark by 9:00 a.m. daily beginning August 9th, preceding a week of afternoons cracking 90 degrees. “These fourteen days in August have all been uniformly and intensely hot,” Timothy Pickering noted in his journal, observing that “continued melting hot weather is unknown in New England.” But at least the Army was relatively immobile, marching only thirty miles the first three weeks of August, in contrast to July’s nearly 150 miles on dusty roads in New Jersey and New York. “It is agreed, by most People, that so long and so intense a Heat has never been known,” John Adams wrote his wife from Phildelphia on August 14. “How we should live through these Heats I don’t know.”
~ George Washington’s Momentous Year, Gary Ecelbarger, P.47
This is what the climate cult and renewable grifters would have you go back to. They would cheerfully have us all moaning like John Adams as he sweltered in a wool coat in Philadelphia in the summer of 1777…when it was hotter than normal.
— Rothmus 🏴 (@Rothmus) July 24, 2025
Keep those thermostats at 85° during peak hours, kids, or no electricity for you!
I hate it when it’s hot and I get cranky.
They don’t need to make it any worse.
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