In the BBC's regional lunchtime news we had a journalist doing his piece from Blackpool, where he met someone with a Brazil football top, and he did the jounalistic "Did you know that" question, so I have written to BBC Northwest Today
Hi In his piece at lunchtime Yunnus Mulla used the journalistic "Did you know that Blackpool is warmer than Rio de Janeiro?" throw away question to a person he was talking too. Firstly the UK is in its summer season, and places in the North West should be having temperatures around the 19Celsius level, not 8 to 12 degrees above this. Secondly, Rio is approx 4 hours behind UK time, and 20 degrees in the morning is not too bad in Winter (Rio's current season). Thirdly, Rio is only about 2,800 miles from the equator, whereas Blackpool is more than double that at 5700 miles! The nearest place that is on a similar latitude to Blackpool are The Falkland Islands, and current temperatures there is about 15 degrees below that in Rio!
Thanks for reading!
Regards
John Lomax stewing in this fossil fuelled climate crisis ca
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In the BBC's regional lunchtime news we had a journalist doing his piece from Blackpool, where he met someone with a Brazil football top, and he did the jounalistic "Did you know that" question, so I have written to BBC Northwest Today
Hi In his piece at lunchtime Yunnus Mulla used the journalistic "Did you know that Blackpool is warmer than Rio de Janeiro?" throw away question to a person he was talking too. Firstly the UK is in its summer season, and places in the North West should be having temperatures around the 19Celsius level, not 8 to 12 degrees above this. Secondly, Rio is approx 4 hours behind UK time, and 20 degrees in the morning is not too bad in Winter (Rio's current season). Thirdly, Rio is only about 2,800 miles from the equator, whereas Blackpool is more than double that at 5700 miles! The nearest place that is on a similar latitude to Blackpool are The Falkland Islands, and current temperatures there is about 15 degrees below that in Rio!
Thanks for reading!
Regards
John Lomax stewing in this fossil fuelled climate crisis catastrophe!
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#ClimateDiary “Above is a fictional weather forecast for August 18, 2050, broadcast by French television in 2014, intended to warn against the disastrous consequences of global warming.
Super frightening! I have experienced 49 degree Celsius heat, with the added ‘bonus’ of high humidity, when camping inland (ie not at the coast) along the Fitzroy River (Western Australia): I finally understood what early ‘explorers’ like Stuart & his party experienced: the need to drink water (ie to rehydrate) can dominate everything you do.
Yes, the experience was a real eye-opener. 🙄 You read in the journals of the ‘early explorers’ of team members driven mad by thirst, & stealing the water rations of their team mates, and you finally understand it. The fact is that there comes a point when you simply cannot drink enough, quickly enough, to replace what you are losing due to the heat & humidity. It is frightening. 😱
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@Su_G If you're there too long you die. Adaption or not. The higher the humidity the lower the needed temperature. At 100% you're dead after 6 hours latest. If youre physically not at the top of the game, likely much earlier. nature.com/articles/s41467-026…
The authors use a physiological approach, finding recent extreme heat events had deadly heat stress conditions, particularly for fully exposed older people. Conditions were well below wet-bulb temperatures of 35˚C, a common heat stress indicator.
@xs4me2 what’s been obvious for a while is that scientists are conservative and understate the risks. It looks like it will get worse faster than predicted.
@retrosponge @andycarolan Too many political systems have mechanisms that essentially amount to legal bribery. It puts the politicians in the pockets of the groups with the most profits which, lo and behold, tend to be the ones that do the most harm (morals don't drive quarterly profit margins!)
Fake news. All you have to do is have as many children as possible, and drive as much as possible, tankers if possible. Oh, and garbage, lots of garbage. The Earth is just a bad little bitch that likes to be put in her place. Just treat mother nature like the dirty bitch that she is.
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The thing that really makes me angry is they keep saying it will be fine if we reduce emissions to net zero by 2050. It's not going to be fine if we do that by 2030! We need radical drastic action now not grand standing or green washing.
so I've made a mistake of searching of an original on unmentionable. Reading comments there is so painful, I quickly realized why I abandoned it in the first place.
@jakubwiech@bird.makeup all fake news !! HOAX, only 27 in Lisbon :) No warming :) There are some issues on Weather forecast that need to be better explained. Its normal to have higher temperatures, like we had in the past. What is not normal is the frequency of it. That is a major threat.
By forecasting 2050, we need to take in consideration some periods that sun is weaker, and 2050 might be one. Will mask in some way Global warming. Precious time to fix or mitigate or will be to late
Image Analysis The post shows a fictional weather forecast for **August 18, 2050**, created by French TV presenter Évelyne Dhéliat in 2014 to warn about global warming, comparing it to the actual scenario in **June 2026**. 🦁🦁🦁
Yes, but it only compares one day. When looking at only a few days, that is "weather", which can change quickly. Looking at many days over a multiple years is "climate" and establishes a clear pattern.
#ClimateDiary “Above is a fictional weather forecast for August 18, 2050, broadcast by French television in 2014, intended to warn against the disastrous consequences of global warming.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell ❝...These billionaires WILL fucking kill you, to keep doing capitalism on a boiling planet. They're installing fascism so you don't have a choice, they're controlling police states because they mean to preserve their world order, with violence--that's actually why security forces exist, everywhere...❞ - AnarchoNinaWrites @AnarchoNinaWrites
Yeah, you get that. I don’t know if we’ll ever get to the 1789 stage, but one things for certain boiling the planet breaks the global supply chain these assholes need fall apart, which is another factor for a 1789.
@jakubwiech A common talking point from German climate deniers is that TV stations just make normal temperatures red to scare people. But this looks like the other way around. I‘m sure a designer in 2014 said „wouldn’t all of France be red“? And a person from the TV station probably replied „This is just a sci-fi piece and we need to keep the audience on board. Don’t be ridiculous just put in high numbers and use the usual yellow-orange gradient that people are used to.“
The most pressing issue we face today is the influence of a single country. No matter how much the rest of the world cares or acts, if the United States, one of the largest economies, dismisses climate change as a hoax, global progress stalls...
Climate scientists have always had to understate things to be believed.
The calamities that they were speaking of, were always the best case scenario's, as when they spoke of the worst cases, no-one would take them seriously.
You got the context wrong. The first image (made by, I don't remember exactly, either BFMTV or LCI), is supposed to show the typical day in 2050. The second one (from FranceInfo), show the exceptional situation of yesterday. They mentionned how a number of temperature record where broken today.
They actually commented on it yesterday. I don't remember the details, but they haven't said it was too out of date.
(good think I'm doing some research on these channels)
ok and what am I supposed to do with this? Be more terrified? Be more of an activist? Hide under a rock? Ignore the impending doom and live my life like a carefree goldfish?
@dreamos82 Holy crap. While temperatures like that are not unusual in Phoenix and maybe Las Vegas in June, July, and August, this must be grueling for the French, who are simply not accustomed to heat like this. Stay in the shade, stay hydrated, try to stay cool!
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in reply to Pauline von Hellermann • • •You read in the journals of the ‘early explorers’ of team members driven mad by thirst, & stealing the water rations of their team mates, and you finally understand it. The fact is that there comes a point when you simply cannot drink enough, quickly enough, to replace what you are losing due to the heat & humidity. It is frightening. 😱
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in reply to Su_G • • •Deadly heat stress conditions are already occurring - Nature Communications
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in reply to Pauline von Hellermann • • •That's terrifying
If only we had received some kind of warning /s
Klingon Sponge
in reply to Andy Carolan • • •@andycarolan But climate change isn't real... 🙄
It's shocking because we're getting ths weather in places where habitation just is not built for it.
Only many governments are doing absolutely nothing about it.
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in reply to Pauline von Hellermann • • •@datacyclist Is there a source to verify the above image?
There has been too much fake news lately.
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in reply to Adrian Dymorz • • •WMO Weather Reports 2050 - France
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Many thanks to the Vicomte, for the correction😊
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in reply to Pauline von Hellermann • • •@jakubwiech@bird.makeup all fake news !!
HOAX, only 27 in Lisbon :) No warming :)
There are some issues on Weather forecast that need to be better explained. Its normal to have higher temperatures, like we had in the past. What is not normal is the frequency of it. That is a major threat.
By forecasting 2050, we need to take in consideration some periods that sun is weaker, and 2050 might be one. Will mask in some way Global warming.
Precious time to fix or mitigate or will be to late
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in reply to Pauline von Hellermann • • •The post shows a fictional weather forecast for **August 18, 2050**, created by French TV presenter Évelyne Dhéliat in 2014 to warn about global warming, comparing it to the actual scenario in **June 2026**.
🦁🦁🦁
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in reply to Pauline von Hellermann • • •Yes, but it only compares one day. When looking at only a few days, that is "weather", which can change quickly. Looking at many days over a multiple years is "climate" and establishes a clear pattern.
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in reply to Pauline von Hellermann • • •Yessiree Bob isn’t progress wonderful?
We’re living in science fiction world!
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in reply to GhostOnTheHalfShell • • •❝...These billionaires WILL fucking kill you, to keep doing capitalism on a boiling planet. They're installing fascism so you don't have a choice, they're controlling police states because they mean to preserve their world order, with violence--that's actually why security forces exist, everywhere...❞
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Yeah, you get that. I don’t know if we’ll ever get to the 1789 stage, but one things for certain boiling the planet breaks the global supply chain these assholes need fall apart, which is another factor for a 1789.
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in reply to Pauline von Hellermann • • •@jakubwiech A common talking point from German climate deniers is that TV stations just make normal temperatures red to scare people. But this looks like the other way around. I‘m sure a designer in 2014 said „wouldn’t all of France be red“? And a person from the TV station probably replied „This is just a sci-fi piece and we need to keep the audience on board. Don’t be ridiculous just put in high numbers and use the usual yellow-orange gradient that people are used to.“
🤔
Georgio
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in reply to Pauline von Hellermann • • •Climate scientists have always had to understate things to be believed.
The calamities that they were speaking of, were always the best case scenario's, as when they spoke of the worst cases, no-one would take them seriously.
Marius DAVID
in reply to Pauline von Hellermann • • •You got the context wrong. The first image (made by, I don't remember exactly, either BFMTV or LCI), is supposed to show the typical day in 2050. The second one (from FranceInfo), show the exceptional situation of yesterday. They mentionned how a number of temperature record where broken today.
They actually commented on it yesterday. I don't remember the details, but they haven't said it was too out of date.
(good think I'm doing some research on these channels)
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in reply to Pauline von Hellermann • • •oh my God, it’s hot in summer!
And when you pick two hot days, they’re both hot!
Kill yourself, you fucking retard.
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in reply to Pauline von Hellermann • • •Remember the boiling toad metaphor?
Real toads jump before things get ugly.
So we are dumber than toads.
Cian O'Connor
in reply to Pauline von Hellermann • • •It's partly a regional thing. Certain parts of the world are being hit far harder than others. And for some reason Europe is getting it the worst.
Though obviously climate change is turning out to be worse than predicted by the IPCC (not entirely surprising given the politics of those documents).
Chancerubbage
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I’ll just drop this here, for us yanks.
37°C = 98.6°F
38°C = 100.4°F
39°C = 102.2°F
40°C = 104.0°F
41°C = 105.8°F
42°C = 107.6°F
43°C = 109.4°F
44°C = 111.2°F
45°C = 113.0°F