May Recap: Heat Hysteria, Erased History, and the Sea-Level Shell Game
Thank you for making Irrational Fear a Top 20 Substack in Climate & Environment.
This month, we pulled back the curtain on the pseudoscience driving climate panic… and it resonated.
As temperatures rise and headlines follow suit, so does the manufactured hysteria. May was a banner month for climate alarmists… and an even better one for those of us who know better.
While legacy media ramped up the fear campaigns, declaring 2024 “the hottest year ever” and blaming every warm gust of wind on fossil fuels, we hit back with facts, proxies, and historical context. Thanks to you, Irrational Fear is now ranked #20 in the Climate & Environment category on Substack… and climbing.
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🔥 Here’s what we exposed in May:
1️⃣ The Hottest Year Ever? Not Even Close
How Climate Science Erased 4,000 Years of Warmth to Make 2024 Look Like the Apocalypse
Modern temperature charts are built on illusion—smoothing the past and splicing on noisy satellite data to manufacture the appearance of unprecedented warming. I broke down how cherry-picked baselines and methodological manipulation are used to erase the Holocene Thermal Maximum, the Roman Warm Period, and the Medieval Warm Period... all to sell the illusion that today’s climate is somehow extreme.
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2️⃣ Exposing Climate Science’s Biggest Lie
How Activists and Flawed Data Created the Illusion of a Climate Apocalypse
The graphic that launched a thousand op-eds wasn’t peer-reviewed. It came from an activist PDF. In this exposé, I trace how a single manipulated climate graph—built on smoothing proxies and splicing in modern data—has been endlessly recycled by media, activists, and even the IPCC. This is not science. It’s narrative engineering.
➡️ Read it here
3️⃣ The Sea-Level Lie: Exposed
Three New Studies Challenge Decades of Climate Dogma on Rising Seas
If Greenland was 8°C warmer during the Holocene Thermal Maximum and sea levels were lower… what exactly are we afraid of? This article dismantles the IPCC’s simplistic storyline about ice melt and sea rise. With new evidence of Antarctic mass gain, flawed ice-sheet models, and historical reconstructions that show the present isn’t remotely unique, this piece hits the heart of climate panic’s most emotionally powerful myth: drowning cities.
➡️ Read it here
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