False claims suggesting that the BBC has been misreporting temperatures in southern Europe have been spreading on social media.
A clip of Neil Oliver, a GB News presenter, accusing the BBC “and others” of “driving fear” by using “supposedly terrifying temperatures”, has been viewed more than two million times.
For the past few weeks, an intense heatwave has been sweeping through parts of southern Europe and north Africa, with extensive wildfires breaking out in Greece, Italy and Algeria - leading to more than 40 deaths.
Speaking about the fires on Rhodes on GB News on Monday, Mr Oliver accused the BBC, and other broadcasters, of trying to “make people terrified of the weather”.
So we’ve actually gotten to the point where these idiots will argue whether or not it’s hot outside. I knew people could be stupid/crazy, I just didn’t realize how many of them there are.
Seen quite literally during the pandemic.
Yep, with the future in store for the earth the pandemic was basically a social test and the results weren’t promising.
I look at the bright side. Many idiots won the Darwin award during the pandemic.
The problem with these new idiots is that they won’t get to experience their idiocy because they live in a place that’s not affected yet.
Not enough won that award to make a big difference or convince those that believe dumb shit otherwise.
I know people who literally came close to being dead from COVID who still have a lot of stupid ass opinions about the pandemic. Hell, my FIL suffered permanent lung damage to the point that he can’t handle being at high elevations for very long. He struggles to breathe with any physical exertion whatsoever. Still a skeptic. Some people just kind of go all “sunk cost falacy” on their own idiocy.
Or a place that is getting affected, but not in a way that looks like what they think global warming means.
More intense storms and more extreme weather of all types are still symptoms of the same problem, even if a local area isn’t hotter today than last summer.
Absolutely, now these fools can Darwin award the whole planet! For a couple of people to be really rich!
Nah. Earth will be fine. We and any species that won’t adapt to the shit we did, not so much.
The pandemic officially retired the phrase “avoid it like the plague” for at least a third of the USA population.
That would be an actual good scenario but unfortunately won’t happen
They’re the ones that’re breeding the most right now.
here is a documentary on it
Idiocracy was a documentary!
Conservative: But I thought my ability to swallow bullshit was going to be a superpower, not a death trap.
When someone argues it’s not hot outside in southern Europe and then goes out in Britain, there’s no darwinism at play, I’m affraid.
Giving every moron the ability to broadcast to the whole world, turned out to be a really bad idea.
There’s one in this thread right now
It has been cold and wet in the UK all month so unfortunately a lot of people will believe this
In Spain it has been far cooler this summer than last, at least so far.