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”.
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.
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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.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/07/25/phoenix-hits-25-straight-days-above-110-degrees-heres-where-else-daily-records-have-fallen/
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.