Originally uploaded to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiDjf77PN3c by Tony Heller Unlike the current manufactured climate crisis, in 1936 the US and much of the rest of the world were having a very real climate crisis. The week of July 7-14, 1936 was the hottest week on record in the US - and that was just a small portion of the climate troubles that year. Atmospheric CO2 levels were very low at the time.