Irish Independent headline did not warn of ‘asymptomatic global warming’

Posts being shared online feature what appears to be a headline on the Irish Independent’s website saying: “Climate crisis explainer: Why is July so cold while everywhere else on the planet is burning? Prof. Luke O’Neill says Ireland is suffering from asymptomatic global warming.”

The part that says “asymptomatic global warming” has been underlined in red.

But the screenshot is not real. No part of that headline has appeared on the newspaper’s website.

The phrase “asymptomatic global warming” hasn’t appeared on the website either.

The person mentioned in the fake headline, Professor Luke O’Neill, is a real professor of biochemistry in the School of Biochemistry and Immunology at Trinity College Dublin. 

He has been quoted by the Irish Independent…