When temperatures elevate in Europe, political rhetoric rises even faster. Within days of the June 2026 heat wave, familiar voices rushed to assign blame. John Kerry, speaking to the BBC, labeled the current U.S. administration “dangerous and reckless” on climate. [some emphasis, links added]
U.N. climate chief Simon Stiell declared that “Europe’s savage heat wave has the fingerprints of the climate crisis all over it; it’s the latest price to pay for fossil fuel pollution baking our planet.”
This hyperbole has no scientific basis. The urgency of assertions that carbon dioxide (CO2) is overheating the atmosphere is never matched in reports about cold snaps that are at least as dangerous.
The imbalance reflects an apocalyptic narrative that prioritizes fear and ideology over nuance and evidence.
So, what triggered the heat wave? The cause appears to have been a natural meteorological phenomenon known as an omega block. The jet stream formed an enormous high-pressure ridge sandwiched between two low-pressure systems.
The pressure differential, whose contour lines resemble the Greek letter omega, conveys hot Saharan air into western Europe through a natural atmospheric process.
Blaming a regional weather pattern on gasoline-powered cars deliberately misleads the public and justifies increased state control over daily life. The selective framing becomes even more troubling upon examination of mortality data for heat and cold.
A study published in The Lancet examined temperature-related deaths across 43 countries between 2000 and 2019. The results are stark: An average of 4.59 million deaths annually were linked to cold, compared to 489,000 from heat — a ratio of nearly 9 to 1. Cold is the far greater killer.
Fearmongering seldom attends to details that matter but don’t contribute to the favored agenda. For example, long-term temperature records in the U.S. destroy the story of a “boiling” planet.
An analysis of 711 weather stations across the country with over a century of continuous daily observations reveals that the frequency of record-high maximum temperatures has gone down, not up.
Yet public discourse is ignorant of this reality. Mainstream media panics over summer heat and snoozes through winter cold.
Why are governments not issuing urgent warnings about inadequate heating? Why do international bodies not hold press conferences on winter mortality?
In fact, the true danger comes not from trace gases in the atmosphere but from draconian energy policies forced upon the working class by out-of-touch politicians. The aggressive push for net-zero carbon emissions has triggered a self-inflicted economic disaster across the Western world.
Look at the United Kingdom to see the future under green mandates.
Even partial pursuit of “net zero” has precipitated a steep decline in per capita electricity use in the U.K. since 2000 — a drop that places Britain alongside some of the world’s poorest nations in energy consumption trends.
British manufacturers have warned that high energy prices are driving production overseas and threatening entire sectors. Hospitality firms report that energy bills are up by as much as 65%
If heat is dangerous, access to cooling should be expanded rather than constrained. Air conditioning is one of the most effective tools of human adaptation. However, in parts of Europe, high electricity costs and regulatory pressure are making cooling less available.
The cruelty of this agenda extends far beyond the borders of Western nations.
When global institutions demand the eradication of fossil fuel use to prevent an imaginary climate crisis, they are condemning billions of people in developing countries to permanent poverty. There, access to affordable and abundant fossil fuels can be the difference between life and death.
Europe’s recent heat wave should prompt a reassessment, not a repetition of worn-out talking points. It should prompt questions about preparedness, infrastructure, and energy access.
Instead, weather has been used to reinforce a narrative that overlooks the most pressing challenges facing ordinary people, making them less adaptable to adverse conditions.
It is time to wake up from this fear-induced coma. The public manipulation has placed a massive premium on electricity, heating, and cooling costs.
Read more at CO2 Coalition
Gates favourite book is “How to lie with statistics”.
A mathematics professor in Germany proved how you could manipulate the result of the statistics by choosing a specific period. So the time frame where they left out the Heat Spikes in the ’60s influenced the overall outcome significantly to “increasing” temperatures. You could produce a hockey-stick, or a decline as you wish. A dip in the statistics results in a spike at the end.
That’s why they also ignored before the 60’s, since it wasn’t accurate enough, that is to say, not digital,
Wiping out the history science, even the most comprehensive studies by he most respected universities.
According to a professor only 10% of the overall energy demand is electric. Which means that airco cannot be blamed for the supposed “Climate warming”. But they put your life at stake to let you pay for the scam by punishment. It’s about as absurd as the original Sin.
Cold is the far greater killer.
WRONG
very few deaths are caused directly by very cold or very hot weather
many deaths are caused by heart disease
heart disease deaths in the winter are blamed on the climate
heart disease deaths during all the other months are blamed on heart disease
this is used as propaganda
The truth is warmer winters caused by CO2 emissions may extend the life of some heart disease patients for a small amount of time
Europe’s recent heat wave should prompt a reassessment of air conditioning
The main problem is in door temperatures. The year in 2017 was mild in the UK. Yet, there were a remarkable 40% rise in winter deaths, which was a rise from the normal 25,000 to 34,000 people. That same year a dual energy tax was implemented making it less affordable to heat home to optimum temperatures.
One study showed that influenza viruses spread more easily at colder temperature. One means our body maintains temperature is by constricting capillaries reducing the flow of blood to the skin and in doing so reduces heat loss. However, this capillary constriction also increases blood pressure.
Despite our body’s measures to conserve heat our core temperature falls slightly at low ambient temperatures. Our immune system is hyper sensitive to body temperature. I experienced this when I dumped a canoe while on a cold lake. A few days later I was hospitalize with pneumonia
Greene keeps stating that the increase in deaths in winter is not caused by the winter weather and has been told repeatedly that it’s the fact that the cost of heating has become too expensive so indoor temps are colder. And you are giving the exact reason why but he’ll not change.