The Heatwave Scam: How Every Hot Day Becomes “Proof” of Climate Change (but it is Not)! By James Reed

Australia is hot. Again. Cue the media hysteria, government press conferences, and the climate priesthood pouring out of the university temples declaring: Behold — the evidence is before your eyes.

Except it isn't.

What we are experiencing right now is weather, not climate. Weather is what happens this week. Climate is the statistical pattern over decades. Confusing the two is not science — it's propaganda dressed up in a lab coat.

If a cold snap doesn't disprove global warming, then — logically — a heatwave doesn't prove it. But consistency has never been the strong suit of climate activism.

Let's inject something dangerous into the discussion: history.

Australia Has Always Been Hot — Sometimes Brutally Hot

Before carbon guilt rituals, before climate summits, before Greta learned to scowl, Australia was already producing temperatures that make today's headlines look positively moderate.

Here are actual recorded temperatures — not models, not projections, not "adjusted datasets" — but thermometers in the shade:

Australia's hottest temperatures (°C):

50.7 °C — Oodnadatta, SA (1960)

50.7 °C — Onslow, WA (2022)

50.5 °C — Mardie Station, WA (1998)

50.1 °C — Wilcannia, NSW (1939)

49.9 °C — Nullarbor, SA (2019)

48.8 °C — Hopetoun, Vic (2009)

Yes — 1939. When coal power stations were fewer, SUVs didn't exist, and climate science hadn't yet discovered that every bad thing is caused by Western capitalism.

Capital cities too:

Capital city records (°C):

Adelaide — 47.7 °C (2019)

Melbourne — 46.4 °C (2009)

Perth — 46.2 °C (1991)

Sydney — 45.8 °C (2013)

Brisbane — 43.2 °C (1940)

Hobart — 41.8 °C (2013)

Notice something awkward? Many of the nastiest temperatures occurred decades ago — before climate panic became a revenue model.

Yet every modern heatwave is sold as unprecedented, unthinkable, proof the models were right all along — until next year, when that too will be unprecedented.

One Event Does Not Prove a Climate Theory

Climate is defined over 30-year averages. That's not sceptic rhetoric, it's the formal definition used by climatologists themselves. A heatwave is not a trend. It's not evidence. It's a data point.

If someone says:

"This heatwave proves climate change,"
they are committing the same logical error as someone saying:
"It snowed last week, therefore global warming is fake."

Except only one of those statements gets called "misinformation."

The Rhetorical Trick: Turn Variability into Apocalypse

Australia's climate is naturally extreme and variable. Always has been. Droughts. Floods. Heatwaves. Bushfires. Anyone raised outside a capital city knows this instinctively, which is why most climate panic originates from people who think summer begins when their inner city café starts serving oat milk lattes iced.

The trick is simple:

1.Take a weather event.

2.Remove historical context.

3.Declare it "unprecedented."

4.Demand political compliance.

It works because most people don't know that 50 °C days happened in Australia 65 years ago, or that Brisbane cracked 43 °C in 1940, or that Wilcannia hit 50.1 °C in 1939 — long before anyone blamed combustion engines for the sun.

Sure, This Alone Does Not Disprove Climate Change — But It Obliterates the Rhetoric

Let's be clear: acknowledging historical heat extremes does not refute hypothetical long-term warming trends; that requires more argument and data. But it absolutely demolishes the claim that this particular heatwave proves anything about climate physics.

If climate science were confident, it wouldn't need to weaponise today's weather report.

Instead, we get:

"This heatwave shows climate breakdown."

"This flood proves climate crisis."

"This bushfire confirms the models."

Funny how the climate narrative is empirically unfalsifiable — every outcome confirms it. Hot? Proof. Cold? Weather noise. Dry? Climate change. Wet? Climate change. Somewhere, Karl Popper (father od scientific falsification) is screaming into the wilderness.

The Real Issue: Not Science, But Narrative Control

The problem isn't that climate scientists study trends. The problem is that journalists, politicians, and activists collapse science into moral theatre, using weather fear as leverage for energy rationing, economic restructuring, and speech control — all while pretending this is about thermometers rather than power.

Australians don't need climate sermons. We need:

Reliable electricity.

Bushfire management.

Water infrastructure.

Heat-adapted cities.

Honest risk analysis.

Instead, we get panic.

Bottom Line

Yes, it's hot.
No, this does not "prove" climate change.
And pretending otherwise is not science, it's propaganda.

Australia was hitting 50 °C before the climate movement existed. The continent hasn't suddenly discovered fire. What's new isn't the heat, it's the narrative. And narratives are not evidence.