A Heatwave In Phoenix? Who’d Have Thought It

British TV weather girl Laura Tobin has been on the receiving end of harsh criticism after claiming recent temperatures in Phoenix, Arizona, were effectively making the city uninhabitable without air conditioning.

Tobin, 41, is a broadcast meteorologist, she worked for the BBC before moving to the ITV Breakfast program Daybreak in 2012. Daybreak was later replaced by Good Morning Britain in early 2014.

Tobin currently presents the weather bulletins for the program.

An article in the Mirror newspaper describes Tobin as a ‘climate expert’. If she was a climate expert, she would be downplaying the alarmist claims; but she isn’t, she is portraying ‘climate change’ as proven fact, even writing this alarmist book:

Phoenix regularly experiences temperatures of 38 to 40 degrees Celsius, but thanks to La Niña, the temperatures broke records at the time of writing the Mirror article for 19 straight days.

As of July 21, it was 43-47°C (109-117°F) in Phoenix.

Michelle Litwin, the city’s heat response program manager, was more philosophical, saying: “Phoenix has always been hot.”

The Mirror article just had to include this virtue-signaling dross:

‘Climate change deniers have started the hashtag #Climatescam and spammed it with a cross of over-enthused right-wingers and spam bots, as is common since Musk’s takeover.’

It continues:

‘One denier, or a possible bot, called Emma, tweeted: “You know who needs investigating … who funds -#LauraTobin .. she is highly dangerous as she is influencing the IQ challenged on the #Climatescam.”

Another account, full of pseudo-science blaming the sun for global warming, also added: “The distance of where you are from the Sun is constantly changing because the Earth’s orbit around the Sun is VERY irregular. Start by learning the three Milankovitch Cycles, then look into Solar Inertial Motion. None of this has anything to do with humans.”’

Notice the words ‘full of pseudo-science blaming the sun for global warming‘. So thinking the Sun has any influence on global temperatures is now pseudo-science?

The article does include this, which considering the tone of the rest of the article, is surprising:

‘Cities around Arizona had to create cooling centers and a heat response program years ago in order to deal with record-breaking summer temperatures…’

‘Years ago’—so now we see such temperatures are in fact not abnormal.

The Mirror article then says:

‘Axios reports that there have been 18 deaths in Arizona due to extreme heat so far in 2023 – which is less than last year.

Four of the individuals who died were at home with no air conditioning, which is deadly in Arizona.

Six others died from heat exposure because they were unhoused, which also means they could not access air conditioning.‘

‘Less than last year.’ So why make such a big fuss about it this year, Laura Tobin?

ITV is now with the BBC and most of the mainstream media in promoting the climate scam as ‘settled science’.

There is no such thing as settled science, as the next big discovery is always just around the corner.

For years it was thought ancient Britons were the first to brew alcohol until ceramic vessels with traces of it were discovered in Iraq from the Sumerian period 5,000 years ago.

When George Stephenson was about to test his Rocket locomotive at the Rainhill Trials in 1829, the then-popular science writer Dionysius Lardner publicly stated that traveling at more than 15 mph would result in suffocation and death.

Many people believed him, and there was even a protest group formed to try and ban these new metal monsters.

Rocket proved to be the best locomotive design by far at Rainhill, and Stephenson invited Lardner to come aboard the carriage to do a run past the crowd at 30 mph. Lardner declined and didn’t criticize Stephenson again.

In 1833, Lardner told Isambard Kingdom Brunel if the brakes failed on a locomotive traversing his new Box Tunnel in Wiltshire, it would accelerate down the 1-in-100 gradient to 120 mph, whereupon the locomotive would disintegrate and kill the crew and any passengers.

Brunel pointed out that Lardner’s calculations totally disregarded air resistance and friction, a basic error.

Lardner went on to criticize various steamship projects Brunel devised but was soundly beaten by Brunel every time. In the end, he gave up.

Box tunnel is still in use today, and as part of the Great Western Main Line, sees passenger services pass through it at up to 125 mph.

It was thought protons, neutrons, and electrons were the smallest building blocks of matter until the quarks were proven to exist at the Stanford accelerator in 1968.

It is interesting to note the Mirror article uses the word ‘denier’ three times, and ‘over-enthused right-wingers‘ once, which would suggest they, like most media outlets today, consider leaning hard to the political left as the only acceptable position.

Cross-posted from PSI

About the author: Andy Rowlands is a university graduate in space science and British Principia Scientific International researcher, writer, and editor who coedited the new climate science book, ‘The Sky Dragon Slayers: Victory Lap‘