By P Gosselin on 9. June 2026
According to Euronews, climate scientists are annoyed about what they call “targeted disinformation about heatwaves” on the Internet.
They say this is leading to a noticeable wave of aggression and harassment against researchers, expecially women.
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Germany’s online Euronews has an article and accompanying video report that address the increasing spread of misinformation online following extreme heatwaves and the resulting consequences for the scientific community.
Climate scienists resent high-reach posts by skeptics that circulate on social media that are aimed at discrediting news reports of “unprecendented heat waves”. These reports often reference earlier historical heat periods such as the extreme heatwave of 1921 or the record summer of 1976 in the UK. These historical accounts are often accompanied by comments suggesting that people back then “didn’t make such a fuss” about it, which is intended to imply that today’s temperatures are nothing new and have little to do with CO2 emissions.
More frequent and intense today
Climate scientists vehemently contradict this narrative. They do not deny that severe heatwaves occurred before industrialization. However, the core issue is different, they claim. Due to global warming, these extreme weather events now occur significantly more frequently, intensely, and for longer durations than in the past.
“In the past few years, we have been experiencing heatwaves that are so extreme that some of them would have had near-zero probability without human-caused climate change,” said Sonia Seneviratne, Professor of Climate Science at ETH Zürich.
Climate scientists also resent accusations that global temperature data is being systematically manipulated to artificially sensationalize the climate crisis. That is not true, they insist.
“Harassment”
In the Euronews article, Dr. Zeke Hausfather, climate scientist Berkeley Earth, equates the stream of ccritical comments made by readers to harassment. “Most of the harassment, fortunately, consists of people throwing insults at me online. However, many of my colleagues, especially women, experience significantly worse.”
Fauci: “I AM Science”.
He did say that, didn’t he.
He may get his comeuppance yet.
That is not an actual quote. Closer is “I represent the science.”
What is a woman?
Don’t ask U.S.Supreme Court Justice Katanji Brown Jackson what a woman is. She doesn’t know.
Isn’t that pathetic! We have to live with morons like this.
To be fair, meaning considering it from a different, perhaps valid, point of view…
The context associated with this is not stated, but here goes. She (possibly) was replying in a context of the Constitution or Federal laws, none of which to my knowledge established a legal definition of woman (or girl or boy or man).
This alternative is based solely on the position of U.S. Supreme Court Justice, which rules on Constitutional issues.
That said, yes, pathetic.
You know what these cry babies left out? All of their so called science was more likely than not based on computer models using RCP8.5. A pathway found to be implausible. Grow up!
Invariably climate scientists present heat waves as evidence of (man-made) climate change; cold spells are always simply ‘weather’. A child could see through this .
The Climate Liar’s lying is so extreme, that there is a near-zero probability that their pants aren’t on fire right now.
Is pants on fire the root cause of global warming?
Curious minds want to know.
According to UC Berkeley (nothing to do with the pseudo-scientific Berkeley Earth), –
Strange indeed that Hausfather allows the claim that he has a PhD in “climate science” from an organisation that doesn’t even provide a major in climate science at a basic degree level.
Querying Google, the AI response is –
Is Zeke Hausfather’s “Climate Science” PhD like Michael Mann’s “Nobel Prize”?
Who knows?
Zeke lies about the Earth’s climate and other things, too, apparently.
The so-called harassment will stop when climatologists stop making statements that can be shown to be false.
Change “that can be shown to be false.” to “that can be shown to be outright lies.”
Or, just leave it as is. The nuance is not significant.