It’s hot. This is not a scam.

President Donald Trump said that the climate crisis is a Chinese hoax, and he put his foot on the pedal to increase deadly fossil fuel industry output that is causing the imbalance in Earth’s atmosphere.

The intensifying and expansive heat wave affecting around 150 million people in the United States from Wisconsin to Washington, DC, is a direct consequence of human-caused global warming.

Scientists and researchers who pay close attention to heat have warned that more extreme weather like this is expected going forward.

Almost daily, high temperature marks are being broken and those shattered records are expected to continue during the next few days, particularly along the East Coast, where some all-time June high temperatures could be chalked up.