Klimaforscher warnen vor Desinformation nach Rekordhitze

Added: 2026-06-07

[00:00:03][music] >> Hello and welcome to the cube Euro news is fact-checking show. Now Europe has been experiencing [music] a spell of unusually hot weather, but alongside the heat claims [music] casting doubt on climate scientists are also spreading online. This post [music] view thousands of times points to a major heatwave in 1921 arguing that extreme temperatures occurred long before modern cars, planes or industrial emissions.

[00:00:29]Another post references the 1976 [music] heatwave in the UK one of the country's hottest on record claiming people just got on with it. This isn't disputed scientist agree that Europe experience heatwaves long before modern concerns about climate change, but researchers say that still [music] does not contradict modern climate science. The debate today is not whether heat waves have happened in the past, but whether a warming climate is making extreme temperatures more frequent, more intense [music] and more likely than they otherwise would be. Likewise a single historic heatwave cannot on its own prove [music] or disprove long-term climate trends. Other posts go further and allege that temperature records are unreliable because cities are warmer than rural areas, whilst [music] others accuse public bodies of manipulating temperature records. The first is a phenomenon known as the urban heat island effect where urban areas can record higher temperatures than nearby rural regions >> [music] >> because buildings, roads and concrete absorb and retain more heat. But this effect is already understood and accounted for in major global temperature data sets. Researchers compare measurements from thousands [music] of weather stations around the world and cross-check them. Different temperature data sets produced by different research organizations [music] show a similar trend of long-term warming despite using different methodologies, meaning there is no evidence to suggest that global temperature records are being systematically manipulated [music] to exaggerate climate change.