From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood.
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Most of the so-called reporting of the European heatwave seems to have centred around of temperature forecasts, rather than actual ones, along with claims of “records” and images of people enjoying the sun. Factual reporting appears to have taken a holiday!
Take the Telegraph article above, published on 18th July. It begins:
Rome was among several European regions to breach temperature records on Tuesday as a Covid-style protocols were rolled out across Italy to protect its hospitals from the unprecedented heatwave.
A new record was set in the Italian capital when the local weather agency recorded highs of 41.8C (107.2F), beating the previous record set in June last year by 1C.
The European Space Agency said thermometers could tip 48C in Sardinia and Sicily, while the temperatures in Rome and Madrid could both reach the mid to high-40Cs.
In drought-stricken Spain, temperatures were set to reach highs of 44C in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands while the country is in the final throes of an election campaign before Sunday’s vote.
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Let’s examine some of these claims more closely:
- A new record was set in the Italian capital when the local weather agency recorded highs of 41.8C (107.2F), beating the previous record set in June last year by 1C.
For a start, the previous record was not 40.8C, as implied. A temperature of 42.0C was recorded at the Ponte di Nona in 2005
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https://www.ecad.eu/indicesextremes/customquerytimeseriesplots.php
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As for this week, the temperature at Rome’s Urbe Airport only reached 40C:
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https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/italy/rome/historic
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- thermometers could tip 48C in Sardinia and Sicily
And pigs might fly!
Alghero, which is on the north coast of Sardinia, only hit 40C, a long way short of its record high of 41.8C, set in 1983.
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There are of course places further south in Sardinia which would naturally be much hotter, but there is no evidence that any of these were hotter this week than in the past. The BBC is particularly good at finding some obscure little village with a high temperature, without offering any historical perspective to compare it with.
And Sicily? Catania, the island’s biggest city, hit 39C on Wednesday. The record there is 44.4C, set in 1988.
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- temperatures in Rome and Madrid could both reach the mid to high-40Cs.
As we have seen, Rome never got above 41.8C at the most.
As for Madrid, temperatures only reached 39C, nothing out of the ordinary at all for the nation’s capital:
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- In drought-stricken Spain, temperatures were set to reach highs of 44C in Catalonia
This is probably the most absurd forecast of the lot, as temperatures in Barcelona did not get above 30C!
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It was hot this week in much of Europe, very hot in places.
But I have found no evidence that the heatwave was in any way unprecedented, never mind the inferno suggested.
Media lies journalism dies!
If the media will lie to you about the frickin’ weather, what won’t they lie about?
You have stated a corollary to the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect: https://web.archive.org/web/20190908145438/http://www.omsj.org/blogs/gell-mann-effect
The post World War II Media has been lying and promoting a political agenda since the Vietnam war. At least that’s when I started catching them in lies, and their lies have only gotten worse as time goes along.
The Legacy News Media has definitely become the propaganda organ for the radical Democrats. All you get from the Media today is the leftwing political spin, on any, and all. topics.
One should assume they are being lied to when it comes to politics, if they are listening to the Legacy Media.
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That and “Watergate”
I enjoyed reading Woodstein on Watergate/Felt/Nixon…..and Casey’s CIA….
Facts ceased to matter for climate alarmists years ago. Climate alarmists believe that the world must be on fire because their belief system depends on it. Therefore the world is on fire. Any evidence to the contrary is utterly irrelevant.
Very true . But other thoughts are popping up , sometimes in strange places .
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/eight-important-facts-not-opinions-that-totally-debunk/
Thanks for that link Bob . I Am always on look out for articles to counter the claims of brain washed MSM acolytes . Another good one is The illusion of democracy; who really controls our lives on You Tube.
it’s climate fundamentalism
I think Herr Goebbels expressed a profound truth when he talked about the effect of repeating lies often enough. The media at present aren’t exactly lying but they are repeatedly mis-representing the truth; the effect though is, of course, the same.
My question is, does the media just make up these numbers, or do they receive them from government functionary spit-balling possibilities? Either way, shouldn’t some form of verification be employed?
The BBC now has a department called “BBC Verify”.
BBC Verify doesn’t appear to be looking at the climate extremists
BBC Verify doesn’t have to verify anything from the climate crew because Justin Rowlatt has already told them it is all true.
And they dont look at the biggest source of MSM mis/mal/disinformation – The BBC.
BBC accepts donations from Billy Gates, so expect his opinions to be “verified” now that he has bought “the most trusted news service in the world”
To clarify Gates partially funds BBC Media Action which is a charity, not the BBC.
In honesty, I’d never heard of BBC Media Action, which just looks like another extreme left charity intent on indoctrinating the poor with their eco-colonialism
BBC Verify appears to be fronted by an empty-headed girl on the hunt for links to “the far right”.
sometimes they are lying- it’s what is expected of them
I disagree: They are exactly lying.
While you may be loath to say they are lying, it is obvious that the MSM frequently engages in Cherry Picking.
As an example, the MSM headlines any and all mass shootings at schools/malls, and then adds in numbers derived from gang shootings, implying that they are identical to the story they just covered. As a consequence, most Americans think that we are experiencing a level of firearm murders that is unprecedented and driven by rifles that look like military selective-fire rifles. In reality, FBI UCR numbers show that the recent firearm murder rate is comparable to 1998 and 1967. All firearm murders peaked in 1993 and the current rate is about half of what it was then. Similarly, rifle murders peaked in 1978 (1,123) and have declined since then to 447 in 2021. The rifles that are cosmetically similar to our main battle weapon are used in a fraction of those 447. The numbers one reads about firearm crime are usually correct, but how they are combined and reported makes a big difference in the impression left with the readers.
Looking at past records this is not even a heatwave, just summer. The lies keep coming, louder and louder.
Doesn’t anybody remember that ancient song from 57 years ago by The Lovin’ Spoonful called Summer in the City?
I think it went something like:
Cold times!
Summer in the city
Back o’ my neck stayin’ white an’ pretty
Been down, isn’t it a pity
Doesn’t seem to be no warmth in the city!
All ‘round people lookin’ half dead
So damn cold gotta stay in a warm bed!
Nowadays it’s more like hotter than a match head.
They’re hyping land surface temperature as in the streets and concrete surfaces. The fact is that this summer has just been a normal summer across the globe. We could end up tying 1998 as the warmest summer on record, but even if we eclipse it, it will be an extremely trivial amount.
“In drought-stricken Spain, temperatures were set to reach highs of 44C in Catalonia
This is probably the most absurd forecast of the lot, as temperatures in Barcelona did not get above 30C!”
There’s more to Catalonia than just Barcelona (which is a coastal city and hence has sea breezes ameliorating temps.
Second link in google in response to …. “Catalonia maximum temperature last week”
“Temperature in Catalonia reaches record-breaking 45.3ºCHottest day on record as northern villages of Figueres and Darnius surpass previous high of 43.8ºC from 2019″
“Other places that saw extremely high temperatures included Òdena (43.7ºC), Santa Coloma de Farners (43.6ºC) and Tàrrega (43.5ºC).
The Catalan Weather Service (SMC) indicated that 31 out of a total of 115 weather stations in their Network of Automatic Stations recorded an all-time record on Tuesday, based on more than 20 years of data.”
https://www.catalannews.com/society-science/item/very-high-risk-meteorological-conditions-in-half-of-catalonia-with-over-40c-highs
OH….MY….GOD, Anthony
Summer in a desert!
I’ll bet that every little village during the Spanish Revolution was carefully recording temperatures and probably going back to Ferdinand and Isabella.
Re: “31 out of a total of 115 weather stations in their Network of Automatic Stations recorded an all-time record on Tuesday, based on more than 20 years of data.”
That means 73% of the network did NOT have a record high temperature.
Also, 30 years of continuous data is typically required for journal publications.
In fact, monthly average temperatures compared against the moving 30 year average is the standard method for measuring long term temperature change.
Daily high and low temps are often anomalies, and they are usually only reported by local TV news weather persons.
“That means 73% of the network did NOT have a record high temperature.”
The usual goal-post shift, and irrelevant to correcting the claim that Catalonian temps fell well short of 44C.
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“Temperature in Catalonia reaches record-breaking 45.3ºC.
Hottest day on record.
The claim was (that they did not reach) “In drought-stricken Spain, temperatures were set to reach highs of 44C in Catalonia”
They did …
A fact found by me with minimal effort.
Which the echo chamber would have been unaware of otherwise.
Happy to accept the claim and so such have their cognitive dissonance undisturbed.
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So now it comes out that “on record” means since 1993?
How convenient that the hot dry 1930s aren’t complicating your evangelization narrative!
You want somebody to admit that it was in fact summertime hot in Catalonia, going back almost to before I was married? Sure. Here you have it. Paul Homewood was wrong.
“So now it comes out that “on record” means since 1993?”
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Comes out where?
”The highest temperature ever recorded in Catalonia since official records began was registered at Figueres, the Darnius Boadella reservoir and the village of Navata on Tuesday, all of them in the northern county of Alt Empordà.
So “ever recorded” means since 1993 does it?
Also, please link to data showing that the Globe was warmer in the “30’s.
Oh, and since when was there a desert in Europe?
You do know where Catalunya is?
Just correcting, err, fake news.
Nothing evangelical about it.
Wouldn’t what you to be deceived by it.
Show us a picture of the site this was recorded at.
If its anything like most other surface stations, it is totally unfit and inadmissible for time-based comparisons.
I was referring to your own comment Anthony. Was that fake news? You wrote:
However I got confused by Steve Z’s reply that mentioned 30 years. So actually we’re talking about the hottest temperature on record, going back to maybe 2000~2003.
(Ok, not a desert but hot and dry. Much drier than my New England)
Anyone who says “hottest on record” when they know that the period is less than 25 years is flat out deceiving. It’s a reasonable expectation that a weather record will extend back 150 years or more in Europe or the US.
Incidentally, I just discovered that the EPA website has removed the chart showing US heatwaves including the Dust Bowl years.
I thought it was GLOBAL warming.
The Op is about temps in S Europe this recent heatwave.
And Catalunya is part of the Globe, last time I looked.
Hence my correction to the mistaken belief that a max temp in Catalunya can be characterised by that of Barcelona, which has a coastal climate with daytime maxes cooled by sea-breezes.
And, as I said, the true facts are so easily found (Mr Homewood).
You were nitpicking one minor weak point in Homewood’s post. Typical of you and your coreligionists, not addressing anything of substance.
There’s still no “global” warming.
A tiny little pocket of the Jet Stream travelling across Europe.
SO WHAT !
There is absolutely nothing “unnatural” or “untoward” about this.
Certainly NOT caused by CO2.
And it certainly is NOT “global”
The ‘experts’ have been comparing ground temps with air temps to make ‘climate change’ even more scary for the constantly lied to public. The BBC’s ‘climate expert’, Justin Rowlatt has had a busy week…..
And they rarely make it clear whether the temperatures being claimed are the standard 2-meter meteorological measurement, or satellite thermal imagery showing the higher temperature of the ground.
Here in the soggy UK, temps have been below average but this is because of the jet stream being further south, not ‘climate change’. When we had some lovely, very warm weather in June, it was down to ‘climate change’ not the jet stream being further north…..
Thankfully you didn’t get confused by that mrbluesky. Some knuckle draggers around here tend to say the weather’s cold so how can there be Climate Change ™ but then when the global heating is heating us they think it’s just weather or something. So inconsistent! Sorry gotta run. I’m flying to Australia and then Tahiti for a couple of big climate protests.
Yes, but surely you realise that the “jet stream” is also caused by the man made climate crisis ?!!! I mean we never had problems with the jet stream before, it’s the climate instability, part of the existential crisis we are causing. !!!
Please try to pay attention at the back .
(I’d better add a /sarc tag before some idiot starts accusing me of being Nick Stokes bot account, or something stupid.)
You scoff, but I bet there’s an awful lot of grauniad readers out there who think it’s called “the jet stream” because we fly planes up there.
Yeah that’s a good idea, just reroute those planes!
While they’re at it, could we finally get those deer crossings moved away from the busy highways? It’s ridiculous where they decide to put the crossings. It’s like they want the deer to get hit.
Why isn’t Davos really warm..
All those JetStreams flying in !!
I have the same questions about the US as the media hyperventilates about the excessive heat across the south. This coming week the forecast is to have dangerous heat in the KC area. But not above 100 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. Our record highs are all well above 100. How is this unprecedented?
How is this unprecedented?
A couple of basic points. First of all it hasn’t been that hot at any point during the current calendar year.
But more importantly — with whistleblowers coming out of every nook and cranny threatening to break through the walk of silence and expose the Biden Crime Family, you have never needed to be distracted as much as you do right now!
The two faced behaviour of BBC Climate journalists makes it into the MSM.
Although some of the comments show not all the public have made the connection that someone preaching the evils of CO2 and flying to make a short report from a holiday resort in Spain.
I was stationed at the naval air station a few miles away from Catania during a summer. The hot days I remember were when a scirocco from Africa would push dust and hot desert air across the base.
All that from a small, sporty Volkswagen. 🙂
Your play on that word was cute. However, small sporty cars often didn’t fair well near the base.
We were doing an engine change function test and one thing to check was maximum engine performance. The plane was set up to blow across a road with the road closed. One guy thought he was better than others and drove his small sporty car behind a a plane with 4 Allison T-56 turbo prop engines at max RPM. Blew his small sporty car off the road into a ditch.
“But I have found no evidence that the heatwave was in any way unprecedented, never mind the inferno suggested.”
but…but… the weather maps show flames leaping off the page in some places!
Color scheme from blood red to ultraviolet
The most important part is the color scheme on the maps.
Factual reporting has been on sabbatical since Tony Bliar came to office
Thanks for publishing this article.
I rail at these liars every time I look at MSM. The Guardian follows ( or even leads ) this movement of deception labelled as science and journalism.
They start 3 or 4 days ahead of an expected hot period. Already cherry picking the location for that fact that it is predicted to be very hot. They then run the usual “could be” “as hot as” and give some outlandish outlier of what forecast was made. They NEVER give the corresponding “could be as cool as” to give the lower limit and thus an idea of lack of accuracy in the forecast.
They then play it all week with variations of “hottest EVA” , “hottest June”, “hottest 3rd week in June “, “hottest Thursday in June”, “hottest Jun 17th” on record …. “hottest June 19th with a full moon and Jupiter rising in Virgo”.
Then , if finally we do get some new record, it’s the OMG, it’s all our fault, WE MUST ACT NOW!
And if max temps are way less than all the shouting and unreliable forecast …. well we just ignore it like we never opened out big fat mouths and deflect attention by talking about a “mass shooting” of three people injured in Chicago last weekend, instead.
People are infatuated with “records”, as the Guinness firm takes advantage of. But the record for the tallest horse doesn’t mean that all horses are going to eventually be that tall. The fact that it is so tall is exceptional, therefore a record of sorts. When the record horse passes away the tallest horse will be shorter. The same is the case with temperature in a given place. It never remains as hot as the record, it soon returns to “normal”, or even below normal. Concentration on record temperatures is unserious and childish.
It is called “Regression about the Mean.”
Yeah, cloudy, wet and not exactly warm – the U.K. is north west Europe….
The real broken record is the number of wet knickers in the media
We got off lightly there…
I went to Rome.
I found a weather-station. There are lots there.
It was crap – only one week of data for this month
I found another weather-station not far away
A Climate Scientist operates it
Temperature is NOT how to measure Climate
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Once again:
1. More rain is not a problem.
2. Warmer weather is not a problem.
3. More arable land is not a problem.
4. Longer growing seasons is not a problem.
5. CO2 greening of the earth is not a problem.
6. There isn’t any Climate Crisis.
#2 Applies.
If you want to see a sourpuss, just ask a liberal,
“So where do you go for a vacation, someplace
warm, or someplace cold?”
A lot of liberals go to Vail (CO). Other times they pretend to be poor and protectors of the poor, weary, and downtrodden.
Climate Depot is running this headline:
“Phoenix previous record of 18 consecutive days over 110F was
set the same week Time Magazine was warning of new ice age.”
I’d like to see where their thermometers are placed. Most high records broken nowadays are just artifacts of that.
Thanks Walter.
People are gradually catching on that the urbanisation and other contamination of surface sites…
… makes them totally unfit for judging changes in temperature over time.
It gets worse, Day After Tomorrow is winding itself up…
Here is what happens when hot/dry air coming out of the base of a heat dome, itself sat upon a desert, undercuts warm moist air.
Precisely the conditions which occur at the southern end of Tornado Alley.
i.e. Southern California & Arizona provide the desert and the GoM the warm/moist air.
Texas nudges things upwards as the warm/moist comes ashore
Here on the south coast of England, La Manche provides the warm/moist, the coast of England (The South Downs) encourages uplift and the Rest Of Europe provides and is: The Desert..
Headline:””Rolex Fastnet Race: Yachts retire in ‘brutal’ conditions
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-66283998
If we look at Zharkova’s prediction of the strength of the solar magnetic field we can see that it is of the same magnitude in cycles 24 and 25 and decreases dramatically in cycle 26. This works perfectly in the latest Stanford WSO update.
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http://wso.stanford.edu/gifs/Polar.gif
An example of climate change hysteria.
As I said some days ago, living in Europe for 70+ years, I can remember several “hottest days ever” that were hotter than the present hottest days/heatwave ever…
Heat was different in those days! 🙂
Definitely the people were different, all cis-gendered and un-whiney
Environment Canada has issued a heat warning for my area with a forecast high of 25 C. It is nearing 1.00 P.M. and the current temperature is a comfortable 21 according to their own website. Actually my thermometer registers about a degree higher. It is unlikely we will reach that forecast 25 and if we do it is certain to be only briefly.
How ridiculous is it to issue a warning for what is normal summer weather, perhaps even on the coolish side. I cannot see it as being a concern for anyone other than a dog or child locked in a car with the windows closed and no access to water. BTW 25C equals about 77F.
But the weather maps showed a lot of red. It must be hotter!
The dear old BBC, bless her, has decided to broadcast ground temperatures rather than the internationally agreed for over a century standard of air temperature in a properly sited Stevenson screen. Turns out the old way isn’t scary enough.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-62257163
These absurd temperatures came from the European Space Agency (ESA) and their Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite. But this satellite was measuring surface temperatures, not Stevenson Screen air temperatures.
It was all hocus-pocus disinformation.
ESA has put out an explanation (not exactly an apology), as in the link below. But the trouble is – the damage has already been done, and none of the media are publishing corrections and apologies. The scare story has run around the world, and the apology has not even got its sneakers on yet.
The ESA disinformation-claim, and accompanying apology-explanation.
https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-3/Europe_braces_for_sweltering_July
Ralph
Paul Homewood,
you said:
yep, they flew:
https://sardegna-clima.it/climatologia/record-di-caldo/
just check for 2023 entries.
“just check for 2023 entries.”
They are all less than 48C.
Warmest was in 1965..
No pigs flying there. !
So less than 48
Ok ..try not to be a dolt !
As the t-shirt says, given enough thrust, pigs can indeed fly.
The pigs flew as well in sicilia:
https://www.blogsicilia.it/palermo/caldo-record-sicilia-licata-rilevati-oltre-46-gradi/898057/
Hottest was 46.3..
Did not reach 48C.. No flying pigs. !
Please address the most alarming part of this fake news: Covid style protocols to avoid straining the health care system??? Che cazzo???
Liars and cheats.
Meanwhile, th final day of the /British Open was warm and toasty as usual for mid July.