Europe’s heat wave fueled recycled climate-denial narratives and harassment of climate scientists Tamsin Paternoster | Euronews | June 29, 2026

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/06/29/europes-heat-wave-fueled-recycled-climate-denial-narratives-and-harassment-of-climate-scientists/ A May heatwave across Europe has shattered temperature records and sparked a wave of familiar claims online that attempt to throw climate science into disrepute. One post on X, viewed thousands of times, claims that historic heatwaves, such as those in London in the summer of 1976 and in 1921, prove that the current high temperatures are nothing unusual.