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”.
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.
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
I live in Greece. The past couple of weeks have been really hot. Today we have a significant drop in temperatures, at last.
Mr Oliver needs to get out more.
I also live in Greece. I’m generally pretty resistant to heat, I love the summer, but last week was too much for me. I worked from home to avoid commuting like that, and I constantly felt tired and heavy.
This week seems to be going fine thankfully
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.
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.
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…? 🥺
Meanwhile in some places there were temperatures statistically impossible to reach…
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
Like a homework assignmentOr to show others how to do it. Like a teacher.
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
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.
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:
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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!
Should just send them to space. So they can see for themselves or just to get rid of them, take your pick.
All the wokies are woking it up causes it to get hotter
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
A few goal post moves later: “it’s the liberals that caused this!”
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”
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?
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
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”.
I thought El Nino & El Nina were cyclic & lasted several years each?
La niña
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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.”
Not just observable, but directly observable by our own senses.
