BBC’s Extreme Summer Weather Propaganda
By Paul Homewood
h/t Ian Magness
Apparently this is what the BBC call factual reporting!
Heat. Wildfires. Torrential rain. Typhoons and hurricanes. Much of the northern hemisphere has been battered by extreme weather this summer.
Not all these events can be immediately linked to climate change. It can take a while for scientists to untangle what exactly is going on – plus, the planet’s natural weather and climate systems are powerful and also affect the weather.
But in the past few weeks, significant meteorological records have been broken in quick succession, to the concern of climate change experts.
As the summer draws to a close, let’s look back at what on earth happened – and how it is connected to climate change.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-8f0357f9-9013-4567-8407-be938c8c70cf
The BBC must be getting really desperate now to sell its Net Zero agenda, which is increasingly turning off the public.
This article is the usual list of bad weather events, which could have been cherry picked from any year in the past. For each one, as we shall see, they accept that natural factors are at play, but then try to pin the blame on climate change anyway.
Hottest June Evah
They conveniently ignore the fact that June 1846 was much hotter, not to mention 1676, 1822 and 1826.
Heatwaves In Europe
Heatwaves in the Mediterranean are not exactly new, and temperatures of 40C in Rome are hardly unheard of:
Wildfires in Greece
Forests are always tinder boxes in summer in Greece; but it takes a spark to start them, and most of this year’s fires were caused by arson, not climate change:
Meanwhile, the long term trend for wildfire acreage around the Mediterranean is clearly downwards.
https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/daviz/burnt-forest-area-in-five-4#tab-chart_5
Even this year’s burnt area in Greece is about a third lower than in 2007.
Confusing Computer Models With Actual Data
Typhoons
The BBC omitted to mention that global hurricane activity has been close to record lows during the last 12 months:
https://climatlas.com/tropical/
Maui Wildfires
Climate change MAY have contributed? Why even mention it then, if you don’t know, BBC?
The BBC are an utter disgrace for not acknowledging that Maui is always hot and dry in summer. Or the fact that the fire spread so quickly because of the unmanaged growth of savanna type grasses in recent years, which have invaded abandoned plantations.
Wildfires in Canada
No mention then that the long term trend in Canadian wildfires is actually down.
Nor that fires this year in the US are the lowest for more than a decade for the time of year.
Tropical Storm Hilary
Although it is rare for tropical storms to hit California, it is not unheard of, and has zero to do with climate change.
As for the hysterical nonsense about flooding, both the El Cordonazo in 1939, and Hurricane Kathleen in 1976, which both followed similar tracks to Hilary, dumped much more rain on Southern California.
Every year there are floods, heatwaves, droughts, hurricanes and wildfires. There is no evidence whatsoever that this year’s batch is any worse then before.
Which of course brings us back to the BBC’s real agenda:
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
As the summer draws to a close, let’s look back at what on earth happened – and how it is connected to climate change
Assuming what they’re trying to prove and want people to believe, for reasons they never admit to.
Send this all in as a complaint to the BBC and Ofcom.
“This year saw the UK’s hottest June on record.”
“They conveniently ignore the fact that June 1846 was much hotter, not to mention 1676, 1822 and 1826.”
So that statement is just a flat out lie then. My question would be, if you have a sound case, why do you need to lie?
Lying, like telling the truth becomes a habit. The Met Office are no longer interested in the truth as they have lied so often it becomes ‘their truth.
“The data doesn’t matter. We’re not basing our recommendations on the data. We’re basing them on the climate models.”
~ Prof. Chris Folland ~ (Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research)
Clearly. Prof Pollard is out of step with the IPCC:
“”The climate system is a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible.”
IPCC Third Assessment Report 2001
The Hadleu Centre prefer the Garbage In Garbage Out (GIGO) modelling method.
Great comment. The operative word here is chaotic. I read a book by James Gleik years ago, CHAOS, about the fool’s errand that is making “predictions” about non-linear systems. It is not science, it is a Religion with the Climate hucksters.
Depends when their records start.
“It can take a while for scientists to untangle what exactly is going on”
Translation – “it takes time to fudge the data”
“Climate change may have contributed” could equally be replaced with:
“Witches may have contributed”
“Aliens may have contributed”
“The sun may have contributed”
“Natural variation may have contributed”
Its a fact free statement and compelling evidence of the BBC obsession that EVERYTHING is caused by “climate change”.
Dear BBC, YES THE CLIMATE CHANGES, has done for millions of years, now get used to it.
When they employ 26 year old disinformation reporters, their historical horizons are somewhat limited
And a backing team of 60 “journalists”
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/bbc-verify/
The BBC Verify team will consist of “around 60 journalists” and pull together the following existing teams which already carry out open-source investigative (OSINT), fact-checking and verification work:
The User Generated Content (UGC) team
World Service Disinformation Team
Monitoring Disinformation Team
Reality Check
Data and Analysis, including analysis editor Ros Atkins and disinformation correspondent Marianna Spring.
Actually lots of millions, approximately 4.5 BILLION years as long as the Earth has had an atmosphere, a layered strong Brownian motion producer asymmetrically stirred by the big shiny thing up in the sky.
This reminds me of our old panel shop foremans comment about the government of the time”They are pissing down our backs trying to convince us we are sweating,boy”
In the old days we really had good storms/
On Saturday, September 9, 1775, a hurricane hit Newfoundland. The hurricane killed around 4,000 people, making it the deadliest natural disaster in Canadian history.
On Aug. 27, 1775, the hurricane hit North Carolina. A letter from North Carolina that recounted, “We had a violent hurricane…which has done a vast deal of damage here, at the Bar, and at Matamuskeet, near 150 lives being lost at the Bar, and 15 in one neighbourhood at Matamuskeet.”
The hurricane also hit Virginia. Between the two states, 163 people died.
Then the storm hit Newfoundland. It’s unknown if the storm that hit the province was indeed the “1775 Newfoundland hurricane” or remnants from a previous system.
Newfoundland was hit hard, especially the fisheries. They “received a very severe stroke from the violence of a storm of wind, which almost swept everything before it,” said Commodore Governor Robert Duff. “A considerable number of boats, with their crews, have been totally lost, several vessels wrecked on the shores,” he added.
Approximately 4,000 sailors died, most of them were from England and Ireland. The storm surged reached levels as high as 30 feet.
This is the first Atlantic Canada hurricane to be recorded. It’s also the eight-deadliest in the Atlantic Ocean’s history.
The deadliest storm in Atlantic history occurred five years later, dubbed the “Great Hurricane” of 1780 — 22,000–27,501 people died.
The BBC still hasn’t quite reached the heights of absurdity of their fellow travellers in the Guardian, whose latest propaganda piece on climate breakdown is, hilariously, accompanied by a photo of *shock horror*-flooding in Metro Manila…..during the typhoon season!
Re wildfires above:if something is dry at 20 deg C,surely it cannot be any drier at 40 deg C.
Exactly. I have read countless times that hotter weather makes wildfires more likely. Since the ignition temperature of dry grass is 300 degrees centigrade, I just don’t see how a temperature increase of one degree could possibly make any difference.
There are countless animals and plants that have evolved to use wildfires – the most recent I read about are the fire-chaser beetles (https://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/news-posts/fire-chaser-beetles-sense-heat-from-miles-away). That they are widespread geographically and there are lots of species tells you that wildfires are very common and always have been.
It’s always the same… “This summer the UN and leading climate scientists again urged governments to keep to their promises to urgently tackle climate change.”
When will these people understand that there is nothing practical or realistic that anyone can do to “tackle” a changing climate? The plans outlined by the Paris Accord are totally unworkable. Lower emissions to zero by 2050? Capture and bury geologically billions of tons of CO2? That’s crazy! But every time there is a weather “disaster” and it’s blamed on CO2 from fossil fuels there are the same urgent demands… “Do something, take action”.
“UN………..urged governments to keep to their promises to urgently tackle climate change”
Yes, ‘Climate Reparations’……. aka wealth redistribution, a classic socialist ploy.
Global Socialism is the goal as explained by former UN Climate Envoy Christiana Figueres:
“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the industrial revolution. That will not happen overnight and it will not happen at a single conference on climate change, be it COP 15, 21, 40 – you choose the number. It just does not occur like that. It is a process, because of the depth of the transformation.
Thank you for your thoughtful, erudite comment. I agree. When will it dawn on people that Climate Grift is a CCP ply designed to destroy the economies of The West from within. I am not sure their aim is to redistribute wealth, more like confiscate it and move the deploarables into fifteen minute city’s.
“…plus, the planet’s natural weather and climate systems are powerful and also affect the weather…”
No!! (Slaps forehead) You don’t say, BBC! Mind you, BBC, I am a little confused when you say, the weather can affect the weather – and, at the same time claim that, ‘the climate’ can affect – ahem – ‘the climate’! You really must get Blue – sorry, Green – Peter to explain. Maybe Dung Heap can do it. He seems to be full of it….
Pardon my reprise: TV weathermen, and their ubiquitous, busty, bubble-headed bleached blond counterparts, are the ORIGINAL fake news. Atmospheric rivers, scorching heat, a Glow on fire, OH MY !–film at eleven.
There is a piece in the DT Features today, claiming “Septembers are getting hotter.”
It includes a graph dating back to 1950, so my lifetime, showing all the September highs since 2000 are indeed above the rolling 5-year avg.
The small print in the lower corner shows: “Data is for Heathrow Airport.”
Ooops!
Shame they don’t include curves of the increase in number of flights, the size and power of aircraft, the total area of concrete and the massive increase in density and congestion of road traffic all around the area, as possible causation.
It is the very definition of an increasing Urban Heat Island.
It’s a worthless piece using all the usual misdirection, and narrative acceptance: Such and such is the warmest since 1906, he tells us, instantly demolishing his case. “In this age of climate change,” he says; but every age is part of Earth’s constantly evolving climate. “The Met office … closely monitors weather patterns [you don’t say] as the planet warms [or more recently doesn’t.]”
I’m unclear how a maximum temperature being above an average means its hotter? Its literally meaningless. How is a single second of a temperature of say 28 degrees “hotter” than a run of days when it was (say) 26 degrees for 4 hours a day?
The BBC, Met Office and others propaganda outlets use whatever measure works for their lies. And all are uttrer rubbish.
Excellent comment, Phoenix. 1981 was one of very few years when temperatures failed to top 30 Celsius in mainland Great Britain, but August was superb…day after day of sun and pleasant warmth.
Funny thing is my daughter lives 5 miles from Heathrow and her outdoor thermometer consistently reads 5C lower lower than there.
Heathrow approx. 1936:
Heathrow now:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EryMD01W4AIXwde?format=jpg&name=900×900
What’s the betting the thermometers haven’t moved?
1.0 The Greek fires are blamed by their government on Arson.
2.0 The arsonists are driven by their attempting to prove extreme weather caused by Anthropic driven Global Warming.
3.0 Therefore the fires are caused by Global warming. Q.E.D. Fact.
Thank you Aristotle for teaching to us this neat bit of Greek logic.
“Much of the northern hemisphere…”
Simply completely untrue.
As it’s BBC – and following yet another liad of propaganda about onshore turbines from Davies and – get this – Hugh Fearnly Whittingstall!!! – about how cheap and secure wind is, I wrote again to the DT. Lot of good that will do…
Been watching the BBC series ‘Coastal Defenders’ about commercial divers and almost every scene in it has to include ‘more extreme storms and weather due to climate change’. They really are trying to force it down everyone’s throats. Tell a lie often enough………!!
they accept that natural factors are at play, but then try to pin the blame on climate change anyway
Call it psychobabble.
World Weather Attribution has found a way to monetize the BBC’s obsession.
‘heatwaves would have been “virtually impossible” without human-induced climate change’
Show us your data. What’s your definition of ‘climate change?’
“virtually impossible” is not a force. It cannot be a cause. Something being more likely is not a cause.
‘Not all these events can be immediately linked to climate change.’
“But give us time. We’ll git ‘er done.”
Their model of a world without human CO2 doesn’t have such heatwaves…but of course it doesn’t because they assume it won’t. And us that model right? We have absolutely no way of knowing. So we have a model tuned to give the desired result that cannot ever be proven right. And apparently if you find that unconvincing you are a science-denier.
Sorry for being OT but I thought that this anecdote about electric cars would be of interest here.
https://notalwaysright.com/if-only-the-car-could-run-on-entitlement/302784/
C4 news also at it … Last night https://twitter.com/AllisonPearson/status/1699129669654585774
“Cathy Newman on @Channel4News allowing several speakers, inc Ed Miliband, to talk about onshore wind farms and how “cheap” it is without once mentioning how totally unreliable wind is, how heavily subsidised, how likely to result in blackouts.”
Not to mention carving up the countryside with tall towers and miles of pylons, and calling it environmental protection.
And ITV News. It is all co-ordinated.
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Fixed it.
And they are covering it with pants on fire.
No mention of any effects from our own personal star, ElNina, ElNino, volcanos or any such, I wonder why? Answer, take away the BBC’s Charter and shut them down?
I recall my old Geography master hitching up his gown and telling me to imagine the World as a big apple, sitting in a dish and wrinkling its skin because the juice was evaporating, and apply it to the volcanoes constantly spewing out lava dust etc, centre growing less so shrinking and causing eartquakes due to realigning. This was 80 years ago, same old?
BBC R4 Drama starting : Cricket, Climate Change and mental health
“Cricket has long had a problem with poor mental health.”
Has it really ??
” A high flyer and settled down with a girlfriend who is studying Climate Science. On tour, although older players tell him not to, he googles his own name and constantly reads and watches everything he can about cricket and then this becomes mixed in with climate fears.
He begins to read tweets and articles and watch TikTok videos that inflame his worries ..”
^^ see Keith Miller re: cricket and pressure
“Pressure?” Miller asked,
“There’s no pressure in Test cricket.
Real pressure is when you are flying a Mosquito with a Messerschmitt up your arse!”
I’ve seen that, too, stewgreen.
One of my golf buddies tries gamesmanship on another, talking about the pressure on his putt.
He looks up and asks, “Pressure? I was in Saigon in 1972. This is just a game.”
When I complained about the BBC reporting of the Chinese floods this is their response (cut and paste like their reporting)
“As with much of the BBC’s science reporting, we aim only to accurately report on findings and do not ourselves conduct the scientific research – in this instance the report was based of the findings and analysis from the above mentioned parties. However, we appreciate you felt that context behind historic flooding in China should have been reported on.
Importantly, we acknowledge the weight of scientific consensus around climate change and this underpins all of our reporting of the subject. The scientific community has reached a significant consensus on man-made global warming. We therefore reflect that with due weight when reporting on the science involved.”
At the risk of stating the obvious, the BBC needs to ensure that it truthfully reports the facts.
BBC 6pm TV news 06/09 stated that “2023 is on course to be the hottest in human history” . That’s a long history, about 300,000 years.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001q8xd/bbc-news-at-six-06092023
at around 23mins 10 seconds. Programme ” Expires tonight 6:31pm ”
Consensus = “we all believe, and so must you”
From 2019
Amazon burning – Take indigenous peoples to ICC and report them to David Attenborough for Animal Cruelty
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/09/amazon-indigenous-fire-used-sustainably/
“As thousands of fires rage across the Amazon, world headlines have highlighted the associated illegal deforestation and international outcry.
But the implicit categorisation of all these fires as “wildfires” or even just “bad” fires hides the fact that fire is also used sustainably in the region. In fact, for numerous smallholders and Indigenous peoples, it is part of their livelihood and cultural practices.
The Amazon isn’t one continuous block of lush rainforest as in the Western imagination, but rather a landscape of multiple ecosystems including forest, wetlands and savannas. Indigenous and local communities use fire within these habitats in different ways.
For example, fire is used in small-scale rotational forest farming where typically half hectare plots are cut, burned and planted for a number of years, before being left to regenerate.
And in the fire-prone savanna, Indigenous people use fire to drive and trap game such as deer or the pig-like peccary.
For many Indigenous groups in the Amazon, their entire way of life is predicated on sustainable fire. For example, the Mebêngokrê (Kayapó) people, who live in a remote region of the Brazilian Amazon, use fire to hunt for tortoises.”