Bernie Sanders - HOTTEST MONTH OF EVER

July was the hottest month in recorded history. I will say that again — we just experienced the hottest month EVER in the history of the planet.

I do not want future generations to look back on this moment and ask why we did not do all we could to address climate change.

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) August 13, 2021

"I will say that again — we just experienced the hottest month EVER in the history of the planet."

What a stupid thing to say!

The planet is billions of years old. Temperature records have been kept for 200 years.

No, July 2021 was not the the hottest month ever in the history of the plante.

From NOAA, climate.gov:

Our 4.54-billion-year-old planet probably experienced its hottest temperatures in its earliest days, when it was still colliding with other rocky debris (planetesimals) careening around the solar system. The heat of these collisions would have kept Earth molten, with top-of-the-atmosphere temperatures upward of 3,600° Fahrenheit.

Even after those first scorching millennia, however, the planet has often been much warmer than it is now. One of the warmest times was during the geologic period known as the Neoproterozoic, between 600 and 800 million years ago. Conditions were also frequently sweltering between 500 million and 250 million years ago. And within the last 100 million years, two major heat spikes occurred: the Cretaceous Hot Greenhouse (about 92 million years ago), and the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (about 56 million years ago).

Earth’s hottest periods—the Hadean, the late Neoproterozoic, the Cretaceous Hot Greenhouse, the PETM—occurred before humans existed. Those ancient climates would have been like nothing our species has ever seen.

Modern human civilization, with its permanent agriculture and settlements, has developed over just the past 10,000 years or so. The period has generally been one of low temperatures and relative global (if not regional) climate stability. Compared to most of Earth’s history, today is unusually cold; we now live in what geologists call an interglacial—a period between glaciations of an ice age. But as greenhouse-gas emissions warm Earth’s climate, it's possible our planet has seen its last glaciation for a long time.

One didn't need to fact check Sanders' idiotic statement. Anyone with the most basic awareness of the history of the planet would know July was not the "hottest month EVER in the history of the planet."

With all due respect, Bernie Sanders is a dunce.

Follow the science, not buffoons like Sanders.