Credit: nationalreview.com
Media headbangers seem to be in a constant race to the bottom to try and get the most attention-grabbing nonsensical climate alarm headlines out of the latest short-term weather phenomenon, whatever it may be. If truth is a casualty, they may fail to notice.
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Climate change extremism and the tendency to alarm first and analyse later is destroying clear and thoughtful environmental reporting, says David Whitehouse @ Net Zero Watch.
A good example of this is the European heatwave hysteria which was started by journalists confusing ground and air temperature.
It began with a report by the European Space Agency that referred to measured air temperatures above Europe.
The point of the press release was that it was very hot.
It said, “…and it’s only just begun…with air temperatures expected to climb to 48°C on the islands of Sicily and Sardinia – potentially the hottest temperatures ever recorded in Europe.” You will note the words, “expected,” and “potentially.”
To be fair the report did refer to surface temperature later on, but we all know journalists rarely read beyond the first paragraph of a press release.
There is a big difference between temperatures recorded at the surface and that of the air at a standard height of 1.2 – 1.5 m which is measured in shielded weather cabinets and is used in daily weather reports. Surface temperature is much hotter.
At one stage the BBC was reporting 45°C in Rome when the maximum recorded air temperature was 40°C. The air temperature in Sicily was 32°C a long way from the predicted surface temperature of 48°C. What a difference 2 m makes!
Everybody knows that the bonnet of their car can get too hot to touch, or that a sandy beach can be too hot to walk on even though one can feel hot but not in distress. It is the air at 2 m that we experience.
Air is heated only very slightly by sunlight. The rays mostly pass right through. A person will feel hotter in the sun than in the shade, but this is not because the air is hotter, it’s because the person is being heated by the sun, just like the ground.
Although recorded by satellites, local surface temperature is challenging to extract from the scientific data. Surface temperatures are far more extreme than air temperatures. Most global analysis of temperature is obtained from weather stations.
Full article here.
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Just hit the RED Button when you hear stuff like that. Glaze over. Gramp’s Blacksmith shop gets hotter than that within 2 meters of the Furnace…
Huh and for the sake of the Greek island wildfires: not been there but, if it is generally so hot/ dry over there, I am surprised that there is so much fuel to burn… and in the villages ? … and the Media is flying IN to the area to report. ( Aiding & abetting globble warning) I do hope that they have brought firefighting equipment and food reserves with them!
‘To be fair the report did refer to surface temperature later on, but we all know journalists rarely read beyond the first paragraph of a press release.’
Then they’re asking for trouble in the form of derisive comments. Sorry to sound intemperate, but we’ve had enough of that mentality.
How California’s weather catastrophe turned into a miracle.
Gushing waterfalls, swollen lakes and snow-covered mountaintops transformed the state’s arid landscapes.
By Scott Dance
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/22/california-water-supply-lakes-reservoirs/
What’s amazing is that the Washington Post published this!
Re. WashPo story: ‘Scientists say’ such-and-such ‘could mean…’ — is wearing thin, very thin.
World weather assertion squad chimes in…
Extreme heat in North America, Europe and China in July 2023 made much more likely by climate change
25 July, 2023
Following a record hot June, large areas of the US and Mexico, Southern Europe and China experienced extreme heat in July 2023, breaking many local high temperature records.
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Scientists from the World Weather Attribution initiative collaborated to assess to what extent human-induced climate change altered the likelihood and intensity of the extreme July heat in these three regions.
https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/extreme-heat-in-north-america-europe-and-china-in-july-2023-made-much-more-likely-by-climate-change/
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They were never going to stay neutral.
more panic porn to keep the rubes clicking the links and switching on the LSM “news” shows thus jacking up the ad rates while doing absolutely nothing to change Earth’s climate.
From World-On-Fire Hysteria To Fake Stats, Media’s Crooked Reporting Goes Into Overdrive
BY CHRIS MORRISON ON JUL 26, 2023
With the latest ‘World on Fire’ show collapsing under the weight of fake statistics, crystal ball attributions, scientific deceptions, made-up estimates, and Justin Rowlatt airlifted into heat-torn Alicante, it is surely time to pull down the curtain on this increasingly ridiculous show.
Running through all the hysterical reporting has been the outrageous use of fake estimates and statistics.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/from-world-on-fire-hysteria-to-fake-stats-medias-crooked-reporting-goes-into-overdrive/
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Media climate trolls love summer.
This should be borne in mind as a potential or actual wildcard climate effect.
Global perturbation of stratospheric water and aerosol burden by Hunga eruption (2022)
The unique nature and magnitude of the global stratospheric perturbation by the Hunga eruption ranks it among the most remarkable climatic events in the modern observation era, with a range of potential long-lasting repercussions for stratospheric composition and climate.
Click to access Khaykin-Tonga-2022.pdf
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Nothing like it has happened since satellite data arrived, as the study explains.