A forest fire burning near a beach resort on Lesvos Island, Greece, on July 23, 2022. Major wildfires in Europe are starting earlier in the year, becoming more frequent, doing more damage and getting harder to stop. But, hey, climate change deniers say it's all fine. — AP
Speckled throughout social media, I see people pointing to the heatwaves in Europe and pointing to heatwaves in the past, and saying “Why is everyone blowing this out of proportion?”I see people once again regurgitating the “fact” that Earth has gone through hot and cold cycles before, why is this any different?
Smashing heat records is symptomatic of the greater warming that is happening in the world. So yes, a record-breaking heatwave taken out of context is just that: an anomaly for the record books. A record-breaking heatwave taken in the context of a decade of higher temperatures is symptomatic of rising temperatures.
What about even further back? Luckily, we know Earth’s historic temperature from tree rings, glacial ice and more, and we know that Earth’s temperature has indeed risen by 5°C in the past. But that temperature change took about 5,000 years to happen. At the current rate of warming we’ll reach a 5°C increase at 20 times that rate. What is different about the Earth then and now? Us.
The problem with using climate change as a point to stoke your own ego with your ill-informed theories of climate and temperature increases, is that you spread your nonsense online and people that are on the fence might be persuaded by your stupidity. Just because you want to stroke your ego and post an iconoclastic view on Twitter.
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