(July 3, 2026)
For all the mediaâs huffing and puffing over western Europeâs âclimate-change heatwave,â the planet cooled in June.
UAHâs satellite-based lower troposphere record has June 2026 at +0.46C above the norm, down from +0.53C in May â a clear monthly fall all while headlines tried to turn one regional European hot spell into proof of a planetary catastrophe.
According to a World Weather Attribution report â and dutifully recycled by the usual activist rags â western Europeâs recent heatwave was âimpossible without the climate crisis.â
Reuters led with the same line, adding that the âsoaring night-time temperaturesâ were made 100 times more likely. The Guardian went further, calling it the âworst ever and impossible without climate crisis,â and claiming the heat was âonly possible because of fossil-fuel burning.â Euronews warned that âclimate change is running rampant,â while El PaĂs spelled out the sermon in its headline: âItâs not just hot, itâs climate change.â Etc. Etc. Etc.
The European heat was real. But it was weather. It was circulation. That is what blocking highs do.
Overall, the planet cooled 0.07C in June.