Follow the science. Listen to the scientists. No, wait!

Even on the cusp of the NATO summit, Kerry (admittedly half-heartedly) spewed climate alarmist nonsense when asked about the Ukraine conflict.

Meanwhile, Author and Energy and Environmental Institute senior fellow Steve Milloy weighed in and threw cold water (pun intended) on Kerry’s claims today with an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal.

The global-warming industry has declared that July 3 and 4 were the two hottest days on Earth on record. The reported average global temperature on those days was 62.6 degrees Fahrenheit, supposedly the hottest in 125,000 years. The claimed temperature was derived from the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer, which relies on a mix of satellite temperature data and computer-model guesstimation to calculate estimates of temperature.

One obvious problem with the updated narrative is that there are no satellite data from 125,000 years ago. Calculated estimates of current temperatures can’t be fairly compared with guesses of global temperature from thousands of years ago.

A more likely alternative to the 62.6-degree estimate is something around 57.5 degrees. The latter is an average of actual surface temperature measurements taken around the world and processed on a minute-by-minute basis by a website called temperature.global. The numbers have been steady this year, with no spike in July.

Moreover, the notion of “average global temperature” is meaningless. Average global temperature is a concept invented by and for the global-warming hypothesis. It is more a political concept than a scientific one. The Earth and its atmosphere is large and diverse, and no place is meaningfully average.

There is an difference between actual measured temperatures and adjusted temperatures and it should be no surprise that climate alarmists sidestep known trends in temperature which are constantly changing. For example, during the summer the average temperatures are higher in the northern hemisphere than they are in the southern hemisphere during the opposite three month period. This is due to the north having more dry land that can absorb sunlight as opposed to the southern hemisphere that is predominately oceans.

However, the instruments being used to measure temperatures have multiple problems as well. Most of the NOAA’s thermometers are not only improperly installed but also produce corrupted readings that almost always produce warmer records. Even the satellite temperature compilations relied on for many of the agency’s illustrations are erratic at times.

But none of the these relevant facts mean anything to climate alarmists, including the ones spewing the hottest day, month, year ever mantra. Follow the science, listen to the scientists be damned.