Climate alarmists and their government-funded media allies are targeting the key battleground state of Wisconsin with false heat claims to scare voters. A poorly written paper by a climate activist group claims there are more hot summer nights around the globe because of climate change. The Wisconsin media sensationalize the paper and predict a rapid increase in hot summer nights in Wisconsin, too.
The undeniable truth, however — and proved by the federal government’s own climate data — is there is a long-term and ongoing decline in the number of hot summer nights in Wisconsin. The propaganda website Climate Central published a paper titled “Faster nighttime warming due to climate change is impacting sleep quality around the globe.” The paper is flawed in many important respects, but those flaws are irrelevant for the purposes of this piece.
The topic at hand is the Wisconsin media establishment citing the paper as “proof” supporting their sensational reports of a dramatic increase in the frequency of Wisconsin’s warm summer nights. Taxpayer-funded Wisconsin Public Radio, for example, published a July 8 article titled “Too hot to sleep? New report says climate change causing more hot nights in Wisconsin.” The WPR article states: “In Wisconsin, eight cities saw anywhere from 92 to 138 additional warmer nights in the last decade than they would have seen without human-induced climate change.
On average, the cities ranged from between nine to 14 more hot ni.