False claims suggesting that the BBC has been misreporting temperatures in southern Europe have been spreading on social media.
A clip of Neil Oliver, a GB News presenter, accusing the BBC “and others” of “driving fear” by using “supposedly terrifying temperatures”, has been viewed more than two million times.
For the past few weeks, an intense heatwave has been sweeping through parts of southern Europe and north Africa, with extensive wildfires breaking out in Greece, Italy and Algeria - leading to more than 40 deaths.
Speaking about the fires on Rhodes on GB News on Monday, Mr Oliver accused the BBC, and other broadcasters, of trying to “make people terrified of the weather”.
Deny, deny, deny. Now climate change deniers are doing that even to observable, recordable phenomena, just to avoid the truth of what is happening. This is what’s stopping progress towards saving our children’s future.
Don’t look up
It hurts me that this one turned out to be a farsighted documentation.
I remember being angry at people saying it was “too on the nose.”
“I’m inadvertently in this movie and I don’t like it”
It’s funny, isn’t it? It’s so “on the nose” and yet perfectly reflects reality.
“Difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to be believable…” and all that
There is something to be said about subtlety in story-telling. When writers tell their message with a sledgehammer, it comes off as unrealistic.
It was meant to be a spoof in that it was so on the nose was it not? I enjoyed it with that lense
Except in this case it was less a sledgehammer and more a mirror.
The worst was the people who insisted it wasn’t funny enough. I thought it was pretty funny, but was that really the point?
Don’t worry, next year (assuming it’s not another el ninio) they’ll accept this years temps and use it as proof that the climate change is fake since “it’s colder than last year”.
We haven’t even begun to see the impact of this year’s el nino event, yet… https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/20/us/2024-hotter-than-2023-el-nino-nasa-climate/index.html
“It’s really only just emerged, and so what we’re seeing is not really due to that El Niño,” Schmidt told reporters. “What we’re seeing is the overall warmth pretty much everywhere – particularly in the oceans. … The reason why we think that’s going to continue is because we continue to put greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Until we stop doing that, temperatures will keep on rising.”
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“We anticipate that 2024 is going to be an even warmer year because we’re going to be starting off with that El Niño event,” Schmidt said. “That will peak towards the end of this year, and how big that is is going to have a big impact on the following year’s statistics.”I thought El Nino & El Nina were cyclic & lasted several years each?
Cycle times can vary from months to years.
Yes
La niña
A few goal post moves later: “it’s the liberals that caused this!”
Not just observable, but directly observable by our own senses.
For god’s sake temperatures above 40 Celsius are dangerous and claims like this will literally kill some people… But again, after everything happening in the last 3-4 years it’s hard to imagine conservatives putting other folks’ health and safety as a priority
I cannot disprove the worldwide claims. But I live in Spain in southern Europe and this past month has been far better than last July was, when we were hitting 38C every day for weeks on end. The heat this summer has been much more punctuated.
38 x 2 = 76
-10%=68.4
Add 32=100.4 degrees F
ok…And your point is?
Theyre just converting the units for people who don’t know Celsius as a baseline. They also just happened to show their work like a homework assignment
fair enough
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That’s why the term global warming is misleading and climate change is a better term. But like you said it’s just that a global average and not just individual places
Are these trolls literally living in their parents’ basements? Like not going outside to notice it is, indeed, hot?
In the UK right now it’s actually cold for July. Overnights going as low as 7-9c in the south and day time max between 16c and 22c. So it might explain it.
So, yeah that’s not the case that they could go outside and see for themselves. Yeah it’s still a stupid conspiracy theory. But, there’s no heatwave in the UK right now.
I mean… As indicated by the news it’s a Southern Europe heat wave.
The UK are absolutely not located in the so it h.
But the deniers mentioned in the article are in the UK, hence the relevance
Its been weirdly very humid though even for the UK. Its cold if you sit still but the moment you get off your ass and do something you start sweating like a pig.
Mr Oliver accused the BBC, and other broadcasters, of trying to “make people terrified of the weather”.
As we should be. These changes on our planet will be the end of us.
Maybe they’re really reptilians. The hotter, the better, they don’t sweat
They Live
Reptiles love heat, and will outlive most species in the impending climate disaster, the alligators of the American South are benefitting from climate change rn
well, the millions who live there and the millions upon millions with heat waves all over the world aren’t fooled. almost no one denies climate issues now, other than people paid to do so, and soon even they will be forced to stop. too busy dealing with climate fallout they themselves experience.
If some dumb fuck can bring a snowball into congress to show global warming isn’t real, then I should be able to bring an air conditioner and say “then what’s this for” and be taken equally as seriously.
How does anyone maintain even a shred of hope in the face of this rampant bullshittery?
About half of my job is dealing with infrastructure so I fight the second order effects of this every day. That gives me hope, that I am delaying the unavoidable disaster ever so slightly every day. Maybe if I work really hard I can buy the human race a single second.
Also I started a guerrilla gardening group and committing myself to planting on average 3 new plants a day.
This is my parents, who emigrated from Europe in 80s.
“Greece is always this hot in the summer”
“I remember 40 degree weather when I was a kid, no one was complaining then”
“Do they expect the Mediterranean not to get hot?”
I hate to see it, especially since they’re both otherwise smart people. They’re just completely taken in by climate denialism.
It’s the fear and guilt of having destroyed the planet their children and grandchildren (especially their grandchildren) will inherit. What they’re doing right now is shoving their heads right into the sand and selling themselves on whatever climate change denialism is out there right now.
hate to see it, especially since they’re both otherwise smart people.
I hate to say it… but they are not really that smart based on that. Amd I’m saying this as someone who’s mom who is “otherwise really smart”, but pretty fucking stupid.
GBNews is basically the Fox News of the UK now, arguably worse. We came pretty close to getting it to shut down entirely when we managed to get 100% of advertisers to pull out of it, an honestly massive organising success by us at the time and one I was partly involved with, though we certainly weren’t the only group pushing it we were one of the main ones. This coupled with a very lackluster launch and absolutely abysmal ratings really made it come close to getting shut down.
Sadly they were content to run it at a loss while reshuffling their approach, eventually they bounced back.
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Meanwhile in some places there were temperatures statistically impossible to reach…
If these people were on fire and their talking heads told them they weren’t they would say they weren’t.
Ugh, is the urban heat island theory gaining popularity again?
