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- [NBC Reporter] The signs are all there.

- [Dale] The United Nations

has declared a climate emergency,

calling it a code red for humanity.

- [CBS Reporter] Scientists saythe planet is warming faster

than at any time in at least 2,000 years.

- It is unequivocal.

- This is the beginningof a permanent emergency.

- But what if it's all hog wash?

What if what we've really had this year

is nothing more than what folksused to call a hot summer?

And not even close to the hottest summer

this nation has ever experienced.

- [News Reader] A heat wave in America

and hundreds of thousands leave New York.

- [Dale] The summer heat this year

wasn't even close to 1936.

- The 1930s were really whenthe terrible heat waves were.

- [Dale] Tony Heller ofRealClimateScience.com

is an environmentalist who,as an electrical engineer,

helped develop the moderncomputer microprocessor.

His website has become acollection of weather history,

history which shows it was alot hotter 90 and 100 years ago

than it is today.

- The claims that summersare getting hotter

are simply not true.

During 1936,

21 states set theirall-time temperature record

and none set them this year.

- [Dale] In the 1930s, most of the nation

saw temperatures over 100 degrees.

Without air conditioning,

it was common for familiesto sleep outdoors.

Many thousands died

and what would becomeknown as the Dust Bowl

forced the migration of 31/2 million climate refugees

out of the Great Plains and Midwest,

many of them to California.

- During the 1930, places like Wisconsin

were seeing temperatures of 114 degrees.

North Dakota was 121 degrees.

100 degree temperatures werevery common in the Midwest

prior to about 1960,

but since 1960 they'vebecome much less common.

- [Dale] But what about wildfires?

News reports suggest they'regetting a lot more common.

But the record shows wildfire burn acreage

is down 90% from the 1920s and '30s.

One reason wildfiresseem to have increased

is because the wildfire databefore 1983 has been erased.

The website of the NationalInteragency Fire Center

used to show how wildfires were much worse

in the 1920s and '30s.

That has been removed.

The reason given by the NationalInteragency Fire Center,

"Prior to 1983, the FederalWildland Fire Agencies

"did not track official wildfire data

"using current reporting processes."

So now when the media visit the website,

it shows wildfires steadily getting worse.

Heller also shows how NASA has changed

its historic weather data.

This NASA temperaturegraph from 1999 showed

the warmest temperatures in the 1900s

were in the 1920s and '30s.

Sometime later, NASA changed the graph

and it now shows UStemperatures getting warmer.

Joe Bastardi is chiefforecaster at WeatherBell.com

and the author of "TheWeaponization of Weather

"in the Phony Climate War."

He says catastrophic weather events

such as Hurricane Ida are usedto show a climate emergency,

when hurricanes just as strong

hit this continent hundreds of years ago.

- It is astounding whatyou see going on today,

as far as the weaponization ofeach and every weather event.

Climate does change, theweather is always changing.

The very nature of our creationdemands change and reaction.

What I do mind is peoplewith a one-sided perspective

that won't give people the total picture.

- [Dale] But this isn'tjust a debate about weather.

It's costing you money.

The Green New Deal

proposed by RepresentativeAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez

could cost as much as $93 trillion.

And most of us are alreadypaying more in taxes

because of the beliefin a climate emergency

that the weather recordssuggest doesn't exist.

Dale Hurd, CBN News.