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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".

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[–] [email protected] 210 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] justhach 131 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It hurts me that this one turned out to be a farsighted documentation.

[–] JDPoZ 35 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I remember being angry at people saying it was “too on the nose.”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The worst was the people who insisted it wasn't funny enough. I thought it was pretty funny, but was that really the point?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

"I'm inadvertently in this movie and I don't like it"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There is something to be said about subtlety in story-telling. When writers tell their message with a sledgehammer, it comes off as unrealistic.

[–] There1snospoon7491 19 points 1 year ago

Except in this case it was less a sledgehammer and more a mirror.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

It was meant to be a spoof in that it was so on the nose was it not? I enjoyed it with that lense

[–] Deuces 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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".

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I thought El Nino & El Nina were cyclic & lasted several years each?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] Buddahriffic 1 points 1 year ago

Cycle times can vary from months to years.

[–] TheBat -2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

A few goal post moves later: "it's the liberals that caused this!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Not just observable, but directly observable by our own senses.