by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor
As Appearing in the California Globe
Fake climate news is solar and wind propaganda
“It’s not your imagination: Sacramento is getting hotter, data shows.” the Sacramento Bee headline cautioned Friday. They also say, “The six warmest years in California have all happened in the past decade, according to NOAA.”
Is this just a little misleading? Quite.
The Sacramento region is experiencing a heat wave, which is expected nearly every summer since temperatures were recorded. Media are hyping that Sunday was the hottest in Sacramento history, but they ignore that it is normal to have triple digit temperatures every July in Sacramento. So we reached 109. We do every summer.
As the Globe reported Friday, “Now that Summer has finally arrived in California, many of these shameless green agenda forecasters are warning of a ‘dangerously hot’ summer.”
And we went back decades to show the temperatures using NOAA data.
In July 1973, Sacramento’s hottest day was 107 degrees; 1983 was 104 °F; 1993 was 106 °F; 2013 was 109 °F, and so on. The highest temperature recorded in Sacramento, California in 1920 was 108 °F – before air conditioning.
