Climate Scientists Say The Dice Are Loaded. Here's Why

There's always a lot of noise whenever we experience a heat wave, isn't there? On one side we hear from doom-mongers who tell us this is a portent of a thoroughly dystopian future that is going to arrive within years. On the other side we have the sceptics who say it's all part of the Earth's natural cycles and we just need to calm down a bit. So, what does the actual science tell us? Help support this channel's independence at http://www.patreon.com/justhaveathink Or with a donation via Paypal by clicking here https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=GWR73EHXGJMAE&source=url You can also help keep my brain ticking over during the long hours of research and editing via the nice folks at BuyMeACoffee.com https://www.buymeacoffee.com/justhaveathink Research Links John Lang's Climate Trunk "Loading the Dice" graphic https://www.climatetrunk.com/infographics/loading-the-heat-dice Bloomberg Article about recent warming events https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-extreme-heat-climate-change-data Climate Lab Book on Substack https://climatelabbook.substack.com/p/the-summer-of-1976 Ed Hawkins' 'Show Your Stripes' website https://showyourstripes.info/ Potsdam Institute paper https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/data-based-analysis-confirms-paris-agreement-temperature-limits-increasingly-out-of-reach Ludescher et al - Natural variability-focussed assessment of climate overshoot timing https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02525-5 European Space Agency - video about heatwaves https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2026/06/Europe_faces_the_heat Copernicus Climate Change Service - Why is Europe warming so quickly? https://climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2025/why-europe-warming-so-quickly World Weather Attribution Service https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/fossil-fuel-emissions-have-rapidly-worsened-european-heatwaves-in-just-a-few-decades/ Check out other YouTube Climate Communicators Simon Clark: youtube.com/user/SimonOxfPhys ClimateTown: youtube.com/channel/UCuVLG9pThvBABcYCm7pkNkA Dr Gilbz youtube.com/@DrGilbz zentouro: youtube.com/user/zentouro Climate Adam: youtube.com/user/ClimateAdam Kurtis Baute: youtube.com/user/ScopeofScience Sarah Karvner: youtube.com/channel/UCRwMkTu8sCwOOD6_7QYrZnw Beckisphere: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT39HQq5eDKonaUV8ujiBCQ Our Changing Climate : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNXvxXpDJXp-mZu3pFMzYHQ