{"id":268816,"date":"2023-07-22T13:31:27","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T11:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=268816"},"modified":"2023-07-22T13:31:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T11:31:30","slug":"justin-rowlatt-flies-to-spain-to-tell-us-its-hot-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=268816","title":{"rendered":"Justin Rowlatt Flies To Spain To Tell Us It\u2019s Hot\u00a0There!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

h\/t Patsy Lacey<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Utter hypocrisy from the BBC!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The BBC\u2019s Justin Rowlatt and his editors have been accused of hypocrisy after he jetted off to Spain to report on the current heatwave and its links to the climate crisis.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rowlatt, the corporation\u2019s climate editor, flew to Alicante to report on the record temperatures over the European mainland, blaming the phenomenon on global warming.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a live report on Tuesday morning Rowlatt stated: \u201cI\u2019m on the beach at Alicante and it\u2019s 27C now, and as you can see dawn is just rising. Even hotter inland, as you can see, they had temperatures in the 30s overnight, inland in Spain and they\u2019re expecting temperatures to peak well into the 40s.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re getting the blast of the heat today in Spain, it\u2019s going to go across into Italy, it\u2019s already<\/em>\u00a0very hot in Italy\u00a0<\/em><\/a>but it\u2019s going to get hotter there, and finally it will end in Greece. All accentuated, exaggerated by the effects of climate change.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shortly after, Rowlatt tweeted that mankind was clearly to blame, citing experts, stating: \u201cIt is getting very hot in southern Europe and it is going to get even hotter. These kinds of temperatures would be vanishingly unlikely without man-made climate change, says [Dr\u00a0 Friederike Otto] and other climate scientists.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why fly to Spain?<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

But critics queried why Rowlatt flew to Spain to report on the hot weather.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Craig Mackinlay, the Conservative MP for South Thanet, said: \u201cThere\u2019s something rather rich about Justin Rowlatt using a fuel-guzzling aircraft to find out what a phone call would have told him. It\u00a0<\/em>follows the pattern of the great and the good<\/em><\/a>\u00a0telling us about the evils of climate change while jetting around the world.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHigh temperatures are common in summer and doubtless everything will be back to normal soon.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several angry BBC viewers agreed that Rowlatt was contributing to global warming by flying to Spain in order to produce a report he could have presented in the studio.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andy Mich tweeted: \u201cDid the BBC fly you over to southern Spain Justin? If the climate crisis is as serious as you say and I\u2019m not disputing that it isn\u2019t, wouldn\u2019t it make more sense and be a better look if you stayed at home?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other viewers pointed out that the BBC\u2019s Spain-based correspondents could have presented the segment without the need for Rowlatt to fly anywhere.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rob Morgan wrote on Twitter: \u201cWas it necessary to travel to Spain when the BBC already has reporters there.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rowlatt, the BBC\u2019s first specially appointed climate editor, gave up flying for a year in 2006 to reduce his family\u2019s carbon footprint.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The broadcaster has made no secret of his passion for the subject and his belief in the impact climate change could have on mankind.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In November 2021 he presented a special edition of BBC Panorama called Wild Weather: Our World Under Threat, in which he told viewers: \u201cThe world is getting warmer and our weather is getting ever more unpredictable and dangerous. The death toll is rising around the world and the forecast is that worse is to come.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the following May the BBC\u2019s Executive Complaints Unit (ECU) upheld criticism of\u00a0 two comments made in the programme.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The unit found there was no statistical basis for the claim that the death toll from natural disasters is rising.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ECU also ruled that Rowlatt\u2019s claim that southern\u00a0<\/em>Madagascar was \u201con the brink of the world\u2019s first climate-induced famine\u201d<\/em><\/a>\u00a0was incorrect, as other factors were involved.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Critics have pointed out that climate activism appears to be a family affair for Rowlatt.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

His wife, Bee, a former producer for the BBC World Service, has taken part in Extinction Rebellion protests and supported a \u201cjustice\u201d fund that gave protesters access to legal advice after they were charged.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rowlatt\u2019s sister Cordelia, who helps run a small fruit and vegetable farm in Frome, Somerset, was fined for taking part in one of Insulate Britain\u2019s M25 blockades in 2021.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this year, defending his reporting, Rowlatt told the Columbia Journalism Review: \u201cIt\u2019s our job in the media to report the facts, impartially and without bias. And there are some inescapable and very grim truths about the trajectory the world is on, in terms of our emissions, which continue to grow.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The BBC, which has a number of correspondents it can call on in Spain and a Spanish language unit based in London, refused to confirm whether Rowlatt had taken a flight to Alicante for his dispatch.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A BBC spokesman said: \u201cThe extreme heat millions of people are experiencing in several parts of the world is<\/em>\u00a0a significant story relating to climate change,<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and our journalists are providing additional insight and analysis on the ground from some of the hardest hit regions.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2023\/07\/19\/justin-rowlatt-alicante-spain-heatwave-hypocrisy-climate\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So it\u2019s acceptable for the BBC to waste licence payers\u2019 money on flying this ridiculous person to Spain, in order to tell us it\u2019s hot there. I suspect anybody who has been to Spain for summer holidays knows that already, and don\u2019t need this charlatan with his shirt buttons undone to tell us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for the BBC\u2019s pathetic excuse:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The extreme heat millions of people are experiencing in several parts of the world is<\/em>\u00a0a significant story relating to climate change,<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and our journalists are providing additional insight and analysis on the ground from some of the hardest hit regions<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has nothing to do with climate change. And it is no more significant than all of the cold, snowy days many countries get every winter. And I don\u2019t see what additional insight and analysis Justin Rowlatt can provide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In reality, Alicante\u2019s temperatures only hit 36C that day, itself much higher than the rest of the week:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/weather\/spain\/alicante\/historic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And as I suspect you have already worked out, temperatures of 36C are pretty commonplace there:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.ecad.eu\/utils\/showindices.php?fj605blbbj6bc6iqosbrm7s0uc<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nor is there any evidence that heatwaves are getting worse in Alicante:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What this latest piece of brazen propaganda proves is that the BBC is only interested in its relentless pursuit of its Net Zero agenda, and objective facts are expendable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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