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.”
The worst was the people who insisted it wasn’t funny enough. I thought it was pretty funny, but was that really the point?
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
“I’m inadvertently in this movie and I don’t like it”
There is something to be said about subtlety in story-telling. When writers tell their message with a sledgehammer, it comes off as unrealistic.
Except in this case it was less a sledgehammer and more a mirror.
It was meant to be a spoof in that it was so on the nose was it not? I enjoyed it with that lense
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.”
…
“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.”Removed by mod
La niña
Cycle times can vary from months to years.
Removed by mod
So we’ve actually gotten to the point where these idiots will argue whether or not it’s hot outside. I knew people could be stupid/crazy, I just didn’t realize how many of them there are.
Seen quite literally during the pandemic.
Yep, with the future in store for the earth the pandemic was basically a social test and the results weren’t promising.
I look at the bright side. Many idiots won the Darwin award during the pandemic.
The problem with these new idiots is that they won’t get to experience their idiocy because they live in a place that’s not affected yet.
Not enough won that award to make a big difference or convince those that believe dumb shit otherwise.
I know people who literally came close to being dead from COVID who still have a lot of stupid ass opinions about the pandemic. Hell, my FIL suffered permanent lung damage to the point that he can’t handle being at high elevations for very long. He struggles to breathe with any physical exertion whatsoever. Still a skeptic. Some people just kind of go all “sunk cost falacy” on their own idiocy.
The problem with these new idiots is that they won’t get to experience their idiocy because they live in a place that’s not affected yet.
Or a place that is getting affected, but not in a way that looks like what they think global warming means.
More intense storms and more extreme weather of all types are still symptoms of the same problem, even if a local area isn’t hotter today than last summer.
Absolutely, now these fools can Darwin award the whole planet! For a couple of people to be really rich!
Nah. Earth will be fine. We and any species that won’t adapt to the shit we did, not so much.
The pandemic officially retired the phrase “avoid it like the plague” for at least a third of the USA population.
- Argue that it’s not hot outside
- Go outside in 120F weather
- Die
- Darwinism
That would be an actual good scenario but unfortunately won’t happen
They’re the ones that’re breeding the most right now.
Idiocracy was a documentary!
Conservative: But I thought my ability to swallow bullshit was going to be a superpower, not a death trap.
When someone argues it’s not hot outside in southern Europe and then goes out in Britain, there’s no darwinism at play, I’m affraid.
Giving every moron the ability to broadcast to the whole world, turned out to be a really bad idea.
It has been cold and wet in the UK all month so unfortunately a lot of people will believe this
In Spain it has been far cooler this summer than last, at least so far.
All these dumb fucks have to do is actually go outside to prove themselves wrong.
I’ve watched flat earthers conduct foolproof experiments to prove the earth is flat, then come up with excuses when their experiment fails.
The heat is caused by Jewish space lasers or something.
Mother fucker…I KNEW IT!
All the wokies are woking it up causes it to get hotter
Should just send them to space. So they can see for themselves or just to get rid of them, take your pick.
It’s been unseasonably wet and cool in the UK so that’s probably part of why they believe it.
Here in parts of the south USA it’s been a normal summer, getting adequate rain and temps not hitting 100+ like last year as well. So I can see some of the skepticism but the world is fucking huge…If I drive one hour further north or south…the weather has changed…
I’m in SoCal, very mild summer. But I talk to by best friend from HS who lives in Phoenix, and it’s a different story.
I live in Phx area. It’s been stupid mild this year?
Yeah… And?
I can write all sorts of garbage stuff on a blog. It’s not hard to claim that “OH GOD IT’S OVER 110 THAT’S HOT”… when the AVERAGE high for basically the whole month of July is 106.8 degrees.
Look at the actual history data. https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/us/az/phoenix/KPHX
May has been below average… June below average. This July has been a bit warmer than average.
That link shows the temperature today is 10 degrees over average. That’s hot. It’s a weird flex to try to claim 115 isn’t hot. Are you a lizard?
Yeah 110 is warm for phx not hot. When I was a kid Tucson would easily get into the 112-117 range often. Phoenix was always hotter by a few degrees.
We’ve been unseasonably mild her in the mid-Atlantic. We’re just getting our first run of 90F/32C+ days this season, whereas we usually see that sometime in June. Seeing what’s going on in the rest of the country I consider us to be damn lucky.
We’ve been getting hammered with rain, though. About 3-4x normal in June.
I can tell you that here in AZ… We’re normal right now. Earlier in the Summer is was SUPER mild. And more wet than normal.
No where near “worst”. I remember a few years back hitting 118 and back in the mid 2000’s hitting 122… This year has been great… We’re already hitting monsoon time, where the humidity kicks the temp down a bit. Then september rolls around and it’ll cool down again.
Didn’t June break some heat records in the UK? I thought that I had read that. I’m in Southern California and this summer has been super mild.
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.
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.
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.
My brother in christ, just go out.
What do you mean?
The commenter you’re replying to is using a common English colloquialism: “go out.” In this particular construction, “go out” is short for “go outside,” which generally refers to the act of transporting one’s physical body (assumed to currently exist inside a structure, underground, or somehow contained within some sort of boundary) to a location that could be considered exterior to their present location.
In the context of the thread, the commenter is inviting those making claims about the air temperature to experience it for themselves by exiting their current containment units and exposing their sensory organs to the actual air temperature of the external world, thus providing the counterpoint to their proposition.
For the beginning of the sentence, please see:
Boomers gonna boomer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
At the end of the day, they’re again the ones that are going to suffer the most with the higher temperatures, it’s kind of like karma really.
No they won’t, they’re going to live fast, die old and leave an absolute ton of healthcare cost for their descendents.
If there’s one thing boomers made it clear this decade, it’s that they’re not going quietly.
They need to be called the ‘me’ generation again due to some of their selfish, short sighted acts.
I think they want to be called the “Last” generation, they seem to hate everything that isn’t them.
we’re gonna get old too lol
Jokes on you, I don’t plan on getting old! 🤪
/s
I reject your reality, and choose to substitute my own. I’m going to remain 36 forever… Please…? 🥺
That depends on a bunch of things.
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.
I was on holiday in southern Europe. I was there at 43° Celsius. I know a person who witnessed 47 more southern. In places where these temperatures have been seen only over the past 10 years
I mean, it’s pretty simple to know the temperature, thermometers exists. Just call someone in southern Europe and ask
I’m not denying there is a heat wave in southern Europe, but where I am in Spain, it was actually hotter last year. I’m enjoy this summer and am usually able to sleep without AC and at the same time I have family outside of the country calling and asking if I am OK because of what they see on the news. There is definitely parts that have it worse than others.
I was in the same place same period of last year and this year was definitely hotter. I grew up there (although I don’t live there anymore), in south of Italy. This year was really bad
If these people were on fire and their talking heads told them they weren’t they would say they weren’t.
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.
Maybe they’re really reptilians. The hotter, the better, they don’t sweat
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
They Live
These fucking idiots are going to get us all killed one day.
They already are, thousands during covid and people are dying already from climate change.
Idiocy is deadly
deleted by creator
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.
