USA Today fact checks Milloy as correct:

An Aug. 3 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows a screenshot of U.S. temperature maps originally posted on X, formerly Twitter, by Steve Milloy, a skeptic of human-driven climate change.

"12 years of emissions down the drain: July 2024 cooler than July 2012 in the US by average and max temperatures," reads text above the temperature maps. "As a climate hoaxer to 'splain that." ---More...

USA Today fact checks me as correct:

July 2024 was cooler than July 2012 in the US.

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— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience)August 12, 2024