Whenever the legacy media and climate alarmists prattle about “record temperatures”, they rarely bother to qualify their hysteria. Understandably, really: because they’re invariably talking about differences in the tenths, if not hundredths of degrees. After all, who’s going to be overly panicked if the media were to truthfully say that the hottest day this summer was so marginally hotter than one 10 years ago that you wouldn’t even be able to see it on a thermometer?
In fact, the difficulty of reading such fine measurements on old-school mercury thermometers, as compared to modern laser digital thermometers, is a persistent problem in compiling long-term temperature records. Add to that, the fact that laser thermometers can record even the briefest fluctuation in temperature, and you’re left comparing apples with pumpkins.
