As Hurricane Beryl was bearing down on Houston, President Joe Biden told a crowd at the Washington, D.C., Emergency Operations Center that “extreme heat is the No. 1 weather-related killer in the United States.” He went on to blame “extreme weather events” such as hurricanes, floods, and tornadoes on climate change before concluding that ignoring it is “deadly and dangerous and irresponsible.”

Hyping the harms of climate change has been a scare tactic of the Democratic Party for decades, helping to make Generation Z the most depressed and least optimistic generation ever. But almost everything Democrats say about climate change is a lie, which is why it is the perfect topic for Part 3 in our series, inspired by the lies Democrats told about Biden’s mental condition, “What else are the Democrats lying about?”

Climate change is real. The world’s average temperature is rising. It is just not rising as fast as Democrats claim and is not causing the damage Democrats say it is.

Take Biden’s statement about heat, deaths, and extreme weather events. Not one claim in that paragraph is true. In the U.S., extreme cold kills twice the number of people as extreme heat. Internationally, the numbers are even more stark, with extreme cold claiming nine times as many victims as extreme heat. 

Turning to “extreme weather events,” hurricane frequency and intensity have not increased since 1900. Floods have not increased in frequency or intensity since 1950, and tornadoes have not increased in frequency or intensity since 1950 either. 

When then-University of Colorado professor Roger Pielke testified to these facts before Congress in 2015, Democrats tried to do to him what they did to anyone who dared speak the truth about Biden’s mental condition before his disastrous debate against former President Donald Trump. They bullied and harassed him, even trying to get him fired. But Pielke had science to back him up, and Democrats eventually gave up their witch hunt against him.

The Democratic Party’s lies about climate change don’t end there. In 2009, former Vice President Al Gore predicted that the polar ice cap over the Arctic Ocean would melt by 2014. He was wrong. The ice cap is still there. In 2009, the Obama administration predicted that the glaciers in Montana’s Glacier National Park would disappear entirely by 2020. Guess what? Obama was wrong. The glaciers are still there.

Democrats and their media allies have been predicting environmental doom for more than 50 years. As early as the 1960s, Stanford University professor Paul Ehrlich was predicting famine, drought, and dead oceans within a decade. He, too, was famously wrong.

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The real mystery isn’t why Democrats keep lying about the climate — they lie because it gives them an excuse to exert more government control over all of us — but why so many voters keep believing them.

Considering that those voters most likely to fall for the Democrats’ climate lies are also the youngest voters, it is possible that they simply have not been around long enough to know that nothing Democrats say about climate change ever comes true. If only there was a way for all of us to speed up the learning process.