If you woke up thinking that today, June 21, is a special day, you’re right. It’s not because the day marks the first full day of the summer season (summer solstice officially occurred just before 5:00 pm Eastern yesterday), or that it marks the beginning of the third full week of Pride Month. It’s actually a day that climate alarmists refer to as Show Your Stripes Day.
What stripes are we supposed to be showing? The stripe graphic created by Professor Ed Hawkins, a climate scientist at the University of Reading in the U.K. The graphic purports to show the dramatic warming that has occurred since 1850 until now. Hawkins makes no bones about what he believes is causing that warming.
“The world is warming mainly because of burning fossil fuels. The consequences are becoming more visible. It’s time to take action,” the scientist posted on X.
The climate fanatics at Climate Central are promoting today as “an event dedicated to growing global awareness about human-caused climate change, its cascading impacts to our health and our homes, and what we as a society can do to ensure a sustainable future for the people and places we love.”
They further claim that today is about framing “the story between climate warming, extreme weather events, and the associated health, safety and economic impacts in your community,” and “to inspire and advance critical conversations on climate and motivate climate action on the individual, city, country and national level.”
Across the globe, landmarks have been lit up with projections of Hawkins’ ridiculous graph. A short list of United States’ landmarks set to be lit up with the propaganda includes Lincoln Financial Field and One Liberty Place in Philadelphia; the Twin Arches Bridge in Winston-Salem, North Carolina; the Louisiana State Capitol; and Baltimore’s City Hall.
Anthony Watts and Charles Rotter at Watts Up With That point out the absurdity of the campaign and claim that Hawkins is leaving a lot of information off of his “stripes.”
“This visual campaign was created by Professor Ed Hawkins to ‘start conversations about our warming world and the risks of climate change.’ He’s done so, but like many climate alarmists, he’s only showing a tiny subset of earth’s temperature history,” they write.
Watts and Rotter point out that the globe has been much warmer in the past, with their own strips showing temperatures back to the Cenozoic Era.
“The point of our Cenozoic Stripes is to show that it has been MUCH warmer in the past, and in the near present cool period we actually run the risk of falling into another ice-age,” Watts and Rotter note. “If we were to plot the few decades of surface temperatures in Ed Hawkins stripes on our Cenozoic Stripes at the far right, it would be so small a blip as to be invisible in the graphic. Ed’s stripes campaign suggest and support the conceit that humans can be in control of Earth’s temperature, if only we’d do something.”
And, of course that’s the point. As far as climate is concerned, the world is in far greater danger of lapsing into another ice age than it is of becoming a dry, burned out dystopia, which ironically will create more hurricanes. Climate fanatics are so focused on propaganda and showing the world how much they care about the planet that they ignore actual science in favor of stunts such as this.
