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False claims that heatwave is bogus spread onlineBy Marco Silva
Climate Disinformation Reporter
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".
"Those supposedly terrifying temperatures that were being predicted, all starting with a four... 40 this and 40 that... were obtained using satellite images of ground temperatures," he said.
(Love the job title Marco!)Climate Disinformation Reporter
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".
"Those supposedly terrifying temperatures that were being predicted, all starting with a four... 40 this and 40 that... were obtained using satellite images of ground temperatures," he said.
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BBC: False claims that heatwave is bogus spread online (Original Post)
OKIsItJustMe
Jul 2023
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Fox News: It's not climate change that's causing heat waves this summer but no one wants to explain.
OKIsItJustMe
Jul 2023
#4
marble falls
(57,567 posts)1. Surprised they haven't started that crap here.
Think. Again.
(8,908 posts)3. oh, they have.
OKIsItJustMe
(19,938 posts)4. Fox News: It's not climate change that's causing heat waves this summer but no one wants to explain.
hlthe2b
(102,569 posts)6. They have.
Think. Again.
(8,908 posts)2. Yes! all media needs a "Climate Disinformation Reporter"!
NCDem47
(2,257 posts)5. Fossil fuel industry playing around in the dark arts spreading this crap