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EU Climate Agency: August Ties For Hottest Month Ever Recorded Globally

Is this an undeniable climate warning or a modeling-driven scare built to justify taxes and mandates?

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EU Climate Agency: August Ties For Hottest Month Ever Recorded Globally

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Above: A tourist cools off at a fan spraying nebulizer in Rome, Italy, on Aug. 28. Image credit: Riccardo De Luca/Anadolu/Getty Images

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Climate-concerned narrative

This report is a flashing red warning light that can no longer be ignored. Record sea surface temperatures and the warmest summer on record for western Europe show the heat is everywhere, and El Niño hasn't even peaked yet. The driver is the relentless burning of coal, oil and gas, and the bills are coming due in ruined harvests, higher food prices and lives lost.

The Guardian

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Climate-skeptic narrative

Another breathless "hottest month ever" headline right on cue, and it turns out the scary numbers lean on modeling and estimates of "pre-industrial" temperatures nobody actually measured. Dressing up guesswork as irrefutable evidence is the same trick that produced Neil Ferguson's grossly overestimated pandemic projections. This is a green scam built to justify taxes, mandates and trillions in spending.

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