Heat denial: influencers question validity of high temperatures
As thermometers creep upwards, it has become harder and harder to deny the reality of the climate crisis. Some, however, are questioning whether temperatures are being measured properly in the first place.
In a tweet seen millions of times, the influencer Robin Monotti said in July that media outlets were repeating a report from the European Space Agency (ESA) that confused air temperature with ground temperature, which is generally higher.
The GB News presenter Neil Oliver took up the refrain later that month, claiming air temperatures in Europe were not as high as stated by the BBC and others, and had not risen above the 30s. He said the higher figures were ground temperatures which could not be compared with the standard measurement temperature.
Another argument increasingly doing the rounds is that some instruments are not up to World Meteorological Organization (WMO) standards, or not working properly. One blogger challenged the record-breaking reading at one site in Sardinia, saying the instrument involved was “poorly sited and maintained”. Sardinia’s Regional Agrometeorological Service looked into the weather stations involved and confirmed they were operated according to WMO standards.
Commentators have also repeatedly attacked the weather maps themselves, saying the colours have been changed to make them more alarmist. Monotti calls them “psychedelic coloured psyops”, while another Twitter user posted a heatwave map of Spain with the caption: “Now they have to colour the map as if we were in hell itself.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/...asurements
As thermometers creep upwards, it has become harder and harder to deny the reality of the climate crisis. Some, however, are questioning whether temperatures are being measured properly in the first place.
In a tweet seen millions of times, the influencer Robin Monotti said in July that media outlets were repeating a report from the European Space Agency (ESA) that confused air temperature with ground temperature, which is generally higher.
The GB News presenter Neil Oliver took up the refrain later that month, claiming air temperatures in Europe were not as high as stated by the BBC and others, and had not risen above the 30s. He said the higher figures were ground temperatures which could not be compared with the standard measurement temperature.
Another argument increasingly doing the rounds is that some instruments are not up to World Meteorological Organization (WMO) standards, or not working properly. One blogger challenged the record-breaking reading at one site in Sardinia, saying the instrument involved was “poorly sited and maintained”. Sardinia’s Regional Agrometeorological Service looked into the weather stations involved and confirmed they were operated according to WMO standards.
Commentators have also repeatedly attacked the weather maps themselves, saying the colours have been changed to make them more alarmist. Monotti calls them “psychedelic coloured psyops”, while another Twitter user posted a heatwave map of Spain with the caption: “Now they have to colour the map as if we were in hell itself.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/...asurements
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