EPA's Misleading Heat Wave Info"One year ago, if you had visited the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) page on heat waves (
Climate Change Indicators: Heat Waves) you would have found the lead chart to be the one below (Figure1).
It shows that heat waves peaked 90 years ago and have been at a relatively low level (thankfully) since that time.
Since the government allows nothing good about our modern climate to be presented, the above chart has been replaced with the one below (Figure 2). It shows an alarming increase in frequency and intensity of heat waves. |
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As you have likely guessed, there is more to this story than first meets the eye. - First, the chart begins in 1961, near the end of a 33-year cooling period that had some of the coolest temperatures since the 1930s and conveniently omits the high temperatures of that decade of the "Dust Bowl".
- Second, and more importantly, the charts above are not representative of America but, rather, are heat measurements in the 50 largest metropolitan areas in the Lower 48 states...
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