Power Line’s Steven Hayward found a source on Twitter for old headlines complaining about extreme heat. He has posted facsimiles of a bunch of them, many come from the 1920s and 30s, some from the late 1800s.
They’re fun to look at, I encourage you to see for yourself. The point they make is a simple one. Serious heat waves are nothing new, and neither is complaining about them.
Human memories tend to focus on the recent past. We keep thinking what we’re experiencing is something entirely new, when mostly it is nothing of the sort.
Chicken Little is still wrong; the point his story makes is still valid. The Gods of the Copybook Headings remain unchallenged.
