The hottest day on record is always determined by transient markers, adjustments of context, confirmation bias, and computer modeling. The “hottest day” can be determined by a specific location, at a certain time, on an isolated day, during a specific month, when numbers are averaged out and put into a computer model. Recent data from Main’s Climate Reanalyzer computer model, for example, have been used to state as fact that this is the hottest year on record anywhere on Earth. However, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, according to the APP, “issued a note of caution about the Maine tool’s findings, saying it could not confirm data that results in part from computer modeling, saying it wasn’t a good substitute for observations.” In 2021, Yale published a similar report, stating ‘Death Valley, California, breaks the all-time world heat record for the second year in a row’. But two problems were found with this report; one, the temperature reported by Yale was 130 and was not even “verified,” and two, the hottest day ever was recored by the National Park Service in 1913 at 134 degree F.

Some of the hottest cities in the U.S. like Tucson, Arizona, are also routinely used to terrify people about the heat. Tucson’s records date back to 1899 when in the fall of that year the temperature reached 107 degrees F, nearly the same temperature as was recorded in the summer of 1900 at 108. The high temperatures from 1899-2023 were all over 100, which makes sense because it is the desert in the summer. In 1990 the temperature hit 117 in June, something that has yet to officially happen again in over thirty years. The record in 2022 was 111.

People are finally starting to notice that weather-maps for temperature X are being updated from green to red for the same X temperature. In fact, the color scale for temperature itself is eerily reminiscent of the terrorist alert system, which, like this year’s supposed record high on July 4th weekend, always peaked with terrorist alerts on July 4th. This is all despite the fact that, according to a 2015 Lancet study, the largest ever conducted on the subject of temperature, 17 people die from cold compared to every 1 death from heat. The fact that Solar Cycle 25 is not only reaching its peak, but is more active and powerful than expected - with the sun showing the most sunspots in over two decades - is a detail happily overlooked to push the same kinds of distorted narratives and statistical manipulations that drove fear of disease in recent years.