Guest essay by Eric Worrall
UK Climate grinch Bob Ward and other climate experts think journalists should project more misery and doom when describing glorious Summer beach weather.
Sunny coverage of UK heatwaves forgets risks, say climate experts
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Experts say unusually dry and sunny conditions like those experienced in the UK over the past two months are too often framed as something to celebrate, with newspaper and TV reports featuring pictures of people sunbathing, playing in fountains or eating ice creams.
Instead, the experts say, people should be made aware of the risks associated with increasingly hot summers, especially for vulnerable groups, and they should be helped to “join the dots” to see heatwaves and flooding in the context of the wider climate crisis.
“I am afraid the media have not woken up to the risks associated with hot and dry weather and that can help lull the population into a state of ignorance about the extent and severity of those risks,” said Bob Ward, from the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics.
He said elderly people and those with underlying health conditions were at risk from more regular heatwaves – a danger often compounded by poorly insulated houses or care homes.
“It is all very well to be talking about visits to the beach because it is going to be sunny and hot but we must recognise that there are real risks too, particularly for vulnerable groups of people,” Ward said.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jun/04/sunny-coverage-of-uk-heatwaves-forgets-risks-say-climate-experts
For shame Britain. Instead of getting out and enjoying Summer weather, you should have taken shelter indoors against the deadly 28C+ (82F) heatwaves, keeping your children safe from the horrors of T-shirt weather, and telling climate doomsday stories to help your kids learn that warm sunny beach weather is the enemy.
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let’s all be sad and depressed about the weather so that we will give up our freedoms…
According to the ONS (Office for National Statistics) in the UK:
Although we see that the hot summer weather has had some effect on deaths, the effect of winter is greater, as shown in our excess winter mortality reports. Looking at 2018, the number of deaths in the winter months are consistently higher than the summer months, even with the heatwaves experienced.
The number of deaths during winter is consistently higher than in summer.
” Bob Ward and other climate experts”
That implies that Bob Ward is a climate expert.
There was a time when such misanthropic doomsayers were covered in tar and feathers and hounded out of the village. Perhaps we should revive the tradition.
I’m very confused,
The headline mentions climate experts and then starts quoting Bob Ward!!!
Apparently we have topsy-turvy weather that can only be solved by computers https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52921479
Given how hopeless Bob ‘fast fingers ‘ Ward is , I remain amazed that his paymaster , which is NOT the LSE .
Keep shoving money his way .
But it is not a surprise to see those whose career depends on selling doom , moaning that we need to see more ‘doom’
Apologies if this has been mentioned already but coronavirus has highlighted how deficiencies in vitamin D can cause health problems; and we all know the best source of that.
In addition, obesity is now a major issue in the UK and is also heavily linked with coronavirus deaths, along with diabetes. One of the main reasons for this is lack of exercise and, yet again, this could be mitigated if more people were encouraged to get outside and do more.
None of this requires a PhD but just a bit of common sense. One can only hope that the spate of doom-mongering over recent months will create a backlash against these idiotic ramblings.
In any event, entirely as I expected for one, the UK weather has now returned to “normal”with low temperatues, little sun, rain and wind. In other words, a pretty typical summer for us.
In England’s maritime climate, in the spring we tend to get mild sunshine and showers, the summer moderate, but humid heat, autumn chilly, damp and blustery, and winter a mixture of cold, freezing, stormy, still, ice and snow. Then the next day is a variation on the same four seasons 🙂 The weather is so changeable that we talk about it every day. As we normally do not get sustained heat, we neither acclimatise to it, or alleviate it in construction or habits – no air conditioning or siesta here. It is never too hot here, just not hot for long enough to get used to it. A high of 12C today and just stopped raining here.
High remains over the North Atlantic due to the low sea surface temperatures.
A return to the conditions of the Roman Warm Period would be nice, when the Romans made wine in south eastern England. Pity that the signs are the climate is going to get colder over the next several decades. Drink up while you still can.
I don’t think the British wine industry would be interested in returning to such tough growing conditions.
Really philly if the climate goes colder which it is it’s not a matter of interest, it just want happen.
These experts are like worried old ladies getting upset when we don’t believe their superstition. Major summer heatwaves wouldn’t even exist without their discrete solar forcing. Here’s what caused 4 out of the 5 hottest UK summers of the last 50 years. And we don’t have any long term trend in rainfall.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/major-heat-cold-waves-driven-key-heliocentric-alignments-ulric-lyons/