{"id":312148,"date":"2024-03-23T08:32:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T07:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=312148"},"modified":"2024-03-23T08:32:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T07:32:26","slug":"bbc-meteorologist-falsely-claims-south-sudan-is-experiencing-extreme-heat-for-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=312148","title":{"rendered":"BBC Meteorologist Falsely Claims South Sudan is Experiencing \u201cExtreme Heat\u201d for March"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY\u00a0CHRIS MORRISON<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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South Sudan is experiencing \u201cextreme heatwaves\u201d and is shutting schools and cutting power,\u00a0reports BBC meteorologist<\/a>\u00a0Matt Taylor. \u201cIt is exceptionally early for South Sudan to experience such heat \u2013 temperatures often exceed 43\u00b0C but only in the summer months, according to the World Bank\u2019s Climate Change portal,\u201d he states. Hot days in the capital Juba \u2013 five degrees north of the equator \u2013 are for some a big \u2018climate change\u2019 story, but it is difficult to read into the\u00a0World Bank data<\/a>\u00a0the interpretation that Taylor wants to publicise. In fact it is impossible, since the data clearly show that average South Sudan temperatures peak in March and then fall away through the wet monsoon \u2018summer\u2019 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Quite how Taylor can draw the conclusion from the above World Bank graph that it is \u201cexceptionally early\u201d for South Sudan to experience such heat, in a place where temperatures often exceed 45\u00b0C \u201cbut only in the summer months\u201d, is not clear. Anybody else looking at the graph would draw the opposite conclusion. Perhaps Taylor is unclear on the difference between rainfall totals (the blue bars, which do peak in the \u201csummer months\u201d) and average temperatures. He also seems to be unaware that South Sudan is equatorial so does not have a \u201csummer\u201d and certainly not in June through August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact the \u201cheatwaves\u201d in South Sudan drew headlines in other climate-crazed mainstream media. The\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0on March 20th that: \u201cClimate change already worsened floods and droughts in the young nation. Now soaring temperatures are forecast for two weeks.\u201d Both the BBC and\u00a0NYT<\/em>\u00a0write about temperatures soaring well past 40\u00b0C, but, as is often the case, we must count the spoons and consult the original sources when dealing with such unreliable propagandists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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According to the Time and Data<\/a> website, in the five days up to March 21st the temperature in Juba only once went over 40\u00b0C at midday. Since a 42\u00b0C high last Sunday, the temperature has dropped up to 6\u00b0C. Hot, it would seem, but not exceptional at the equator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the BBC was in full disaster mode with Taylor reporting that South Sudan is the latest in a \u201clong-line\u201d of countries to experience blistering and, in many cases, record-breaking heat. \u201cThis heat is very serious, and it\u2019s really affecting our work,\u201d says Wadcom Saviour Lazarus, who is said to run an NGO. \u201cBecause of this heat we are not able to move from one place to another,\u201d he adds. Juba resident Ayaa Winnie Eric is said to take \u201clots of water to keep me hydrated\u201d. Light clothes are worn and walking in the hot sun is avoided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did people cope in the past living right next to the equator? Of course they didn\u2019t have \u2018climate change\u2019 alarmism to cope with as another World Bank graph below demonstrates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The graph plots the temperatures for South Sudan going back to 1901. On a five year smoothing average, the temperature in 2022 at 27.64\u00b0C was only 0.41\u00b0C higher than 121 years ago. Interestingly, since 2007 the average temperature has actually dropped <\/em>a full degree centigrade from 28.64\u00b0C to 27.64\u00b0C. Looking at the cyclical nature of the graph, it is difficult to see a correlation with trace atmospheric carbon dioxide which has of course risen throughout the period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Taylor story is another crass example of the constant fearmongering undertaken in the mainstream media to nudge populations to accept the collectivist Net Zero project. In this case it can only be assumed that readers will take the hint over devasting human-caused climate change and not look at the underlying data. South Sudan is a hot, under-developed African country that has been racked by civil war. Infrastructure is basic, electricity and air conditioning frequently fails. Meanwhile, the population of Juba has risen tenfold since the 1970s to reach half a million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The investigative journalist Paul Homewood is an excellent source for the constant stream of BBC climate howlers. In fact he runs an annual review of some of the best BBC bloopers<\/a>. How we laugh when we read his latest publication noting that \u201cextreme weather linked to climate change\u201d has eroded the soft sand cliffs of the Norfolk village of Happishburgh. No mention, needless to say, of the findings of the British Geological Society that it is likely the Norfolk cliffs have been \u201ceroding at the present rate for about the last 5,000 years\u201d. Who can forget the report that bee-eater birds have turned up in Norfolk, which was reported to be a worrying sign, \u201cunmissable\u201d no less, of how our climate is changing. It was a shame to spoil the story by noting that bee-eaters have been frequent visitors to England in the past. One archive alone lists 80 sightings between 1793 and 1957.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No doubt, to be cont\u2019d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Morrison is the<\/em> Daily Sceptic\u2019s Environment Editor.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hot days in the capital Juba \u2013 five degrees north of the equator \u2013 are for some a big \u2018climate change\u2019 story, but it is difficult to read into the\u00a0World Bank data\u00a0the interpretation that Taylor wants to publicise. 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