[Source.](https://climaterealism.com/2023/10/nyt-claims-record-september-temperature-indicates-accelerated-climate-change-it-doesnt/) > A guest opinion article in The New York Times by Zeke Hausfather, Ph.D, titled “I Study Climate Change. The Data Is Telling Us Something New,” suggests that a single record warm month of data is an indication of “evidence that global warming has accelerated.” The claim is false for four reasons; because a single month isn’t representative of long term climate change, the data Hausfather cites isn’t in agreement with other datasets, and it isn’t representative of the globe, but a weather anomaly in Antarctica. Finally, the year-on-year increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide, said to drive such temperatures, wasn’t enough to cause the event. > First, one month of record high temperatures has nothing to do with long-term climate change, which is defined by the World Meteorological Organization as “…the average weather conditions for a particular location and over a long period of time.” To create a climate record, 30 years of weather data is averaged to create a “normal” climate expectation for a location or region. What we experience on a day-to-day basis are weather events, not climate events. Weather is not climate and therefore one September record high temperature is not a climate change indicator. Hausfather, being a climate scientist, should know this. > However, given the emotional and unscientific opening statement made by Hausfather in the article, “Staggering. Unnerving. Mind-boggling. Absolutely gobsmackingly bananas,” it seems he is prone to emotions over fact.