{"id":274571,"date":"2023-08-19T21:15:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T19:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=274571"},"modified":"2023-08-19T21:15:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T19:15:53","slug":"climate-hype-backfires-on-greens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=274571","title":{"rendered":"Climate Hype Backfires on\u00a0Greens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Science Matters<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Ron Clutz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mark Higgie reports\u00a0Europe\u2019s summer of climate hysteria<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in Spectator Australia.\u00a0 Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But voters continue to move against the Green tide<\/mark><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the British weather were a person with bank accounts, it would by now likely find itself, like Nigel Farage, \u2018de-banked\u2019 for political incorrectness. While the BBC has gone into hysterics over the hot summer in southern Europe, further north the\u00a0British weather has stubbornly refused to co-operate with the Green warming narrative.<\/strong>\u00a0Temperatures for much of the summer have barely reached those of a winter\u2019s day in Canberra. Much of the British media has tied itself in knots trying to explain why, if\u00a0the world<\/strong>\u00a0just had its hottest July ever, and is,\u00a0in the words of UN Secretary-General Gutteres, \u2018boiling\u2019, everyone in Britain is wearing jumpers and has the heating on.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Where has UK summer gone?<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As the media have pulled out all the stops to stir climate fear,\u00a0Australians will recognise echoes of the ABC\u2019s coverage of the 2019-20 bushfires<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 especially the silence about revelations that\u00a0Europe\u2019s recent \u2018wildfires\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0were fuelled by Green-tinged failures to backburn and were\u00a0started in many cases by arsonists.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sadly a watershed moment has been reached: you can no longer trust
Europe\u2019s weather forecasts and readings.<\/mark><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of the\u00a0BBC\u2019s forecasts<\/strong>\u00a0in mid-July for southern Europe proved\u00a0wildly exaggerated.<\/strong>\u00a0For example, on 18 July, it reported Sardinia was expected that day to see a high of 46 degrees and that \u2018there are warnings that extreme heat could continue for a further 10 days\u2019. In fact, Sardinia peaked at 40 and temperatures then fell steadily to the low-30s over the following week.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Much of the hyperbole appears to have been based on\u00a0a swifty pulled by the European Space Agency<\/strong>\u00a0(ESA), on which many media outlets rely for weather forecasts. On 13 July it issued a press release\u00a0claiming<\/strong>\u00a0that the \u2018air temperature\u2019 of\u00a0Sardinia and Sicily was \u2018expected\u2019 to climb to 48 degrees<\/strong>, \u2018potentially the hottest temperatures ever recorded in Europe\u2019. In Sicily in fact\u00a0it never went above 35<\/strong>\u00a0degrees. Unusually, the 13 July ESA press release, updated five days later, claimed that land temperatures in the 40s and 50s had been recorded across southern Europe in the previous days. The standard measurement of temperature is that of the air, made two metres above the ground. Land temperatures will of course always be many degrees higher, as anyone who has walked barefoot on a concrete footpath in summertime Australia will know. The\u00a0ESA\u2019s 48 degree forecast of the \u2018air\u2019 temperature in southern Italy was obviously an error<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 in reality it was the forecast land temperature.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The forecast was never corrected, went unnoticed by most in the media
and was repeated around the world.<\/mark><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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