From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
h/t Paul Kolk
The latest fake news from the BBC:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/av/66818689
According to BBC weatherman Simon King:
“Canada, the US and Mexico often get extreme weather. We’ve seen heatwaves, droughts and wildfires in recent years.
And with the 2026 World Cup being held in these locations, how much of a problem is extreme weather going to be?”
He uses as his example this year’s heatwave in Texas, which he falsely claims to be “record breaking”:
Far from being record breaking, temperatures of 38C (100F) in Dallas occur virtually every summer. The record there is 112F set in 1980.
And although the heatwave lasted a bit longer than normal this summer with 43 days of 100F or more, there is nothing unusual about this either:
http://climod2.nrcc.cornell.edu/
It’s the same story in Miami, where temperatures of 35C (95F) occur most years.
In neither city is there any evidence that temperatures are increasing.
Maybe Simon King should go and check what the weather was like the last time the US hosted the World Cup in 1994:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_FIFA_World_Cup
It makes one wonder how Brazil ever managed to become yhe greatest football nation of all time.
After the heat and humidity of Brazil, they could play well anywhere.
A little logic goes a long way.
*Sigh*
The usual claptrap, using weasel words ‘unprecedented’ and ‘unusual’ when in fact all of the weather he mentions are usual and have precedent, sometimes going back more than a century.
Only if prayer actually works.
Yes it can. Who cares?
but… but… we should spend quadrillions of dollars to prevent it- we want perfect weather on that World Cup
Joe Biden says we need to “climate-proof” the Earth’s climate.
Well, Biden is a Catholic, so he should ask Jesus to make that happen.
In a recent speech he claimed to have been raised in synagogues. Based on his many speeches I’ve concluded he’s a black Puerto Rican Jew educated by Catholic Nuns.
Oh yes please. Might stop the radical hype.
What about the number of days greater than 105? How would that compare to previous years?
It was hotter in the past.
Who cares….this most boring thing ever created may bore many people to death.
What about a nice round of golf?
Piffle. I’m currently watching the first few weeks of the Rugby World Cup in France; they’ve played games in searing heat where there were mandatory water breaks in each half and also in total downpours where it was difficult seeing from one end of the pitch to the other. About the only thing that would stop a match is ice and a depth of snow on the pitch (seen it happen). Unless these football players are just mincing prima-donna’s then a bit of weather will not stop games from happening.
The degeneration of the BBC knows no limits and it will take decades to repair the damage even now.
If Britain’s responsible class had any decency left then Aunty would be put down right now. Since the BBC has the same duplicitous output as, for example, the Guardian, then it really needs no replacement.
I am sure there are many who would rather spend or see the license fee money spent on honest and balanced broadcasters who really do care about their audiences (GB News, Daily Sceptic etc) as the BBC once did.
It just seems to be accusation after accusation of sex scandals with this presenter or that presenter, all with a complicit blind eye turned by the BBC, or Channel 4 and the BBC in this latest one. How long can this go on before we have to say ‘enough’ and rip up their charter and the license fee.
Have these people nothing better to think about than whether or not the World Cup 2026 events will be hot?
Apparently not.
Seems like the answer is yes, just like always.
Extreme weather could hit the World Cup. Or not.
Around 2,000 people are killed from being struck by lightning each year. A rare event that happens a few times each day, worldwide.
Extreme weather is the norm in those locations at that time of year. It is always hot and muggy.
I can make a teleconnection prediction for that. June 2026 should see generally negative North Atlantic & Arctic Oscillation conditions, while from early July should see positive NAO/AO conditions, with week 2 of July seeing strong heatwave conditions in west coast maritime regions, like California and the UK.
And your guess is as good as anybody else’s. Nothing unusual will happen.
Prediction is not guessing, but you must guessing that I must be guessing.
The “extreme” weather meme is making the case that human activities are confined to a very small temperature window that has never existed before. Certainly people have griped about hot weather in prior times but continued on with their daily chores. Perhaps that was because nothing could be done about it except sitting in the shade with a cool drink. Now technology has given the impression that no problem in our personal environment is too great for what amounts to scientism, as long as enough money is made available and the general population adheres to instructions.
Go indoors is my advice. Torrential rain, sleet, snow, or hail? Go indoors. High winds, baking temperatures or dust storms? Go indoors. All with the option of a cold/hot beverage, according to taste. Simples.
They want $200 trillion to keep the temperature of the Earth from rising 1C degrees.
There are 2 billion households and two-thirds of them don’t have air conditioners so about 1.4 billion air conditioners are needed now.
Good air conditioners can probably be made for $200 at this scale, so 1.4 billion households times $200 equals $280 billion. Mitigation is far cheaper than trying to control CO2 levels or solar output if the Sun is responsible.
They want $US 200 trillion by 2050. There are about 2 billion households in the world so that would be $100,000 per household to keep the temperature from going up a degree Celsius.
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” … so that would be $100,000 per household to keep the temperature from going up a degree Celsius.”
I am sure that many folk would appreciate a degree warmer.
I live in southern England, at a latitude similar to Calgary, and a degree warmer would be nice – for about eleven months of the year. The twelfth month – I’ll cope, even without AC.
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With such threats looming, FIFA had better play it safe and reschedule all matches for yet-to-be-built venues on the shores of Hudson Bay, Great Slave and Great Bear Lakes.
Depends, how much did they ‘donate’ to FIFA?
I worked at Foxborough for every one of those matches they hosted at the World Cup. I can state with 100 percent certainty that the weather, in Commander Data’s words, were well within normal weather parameters (not too hot or cold, zero rain or hurricanes). Furthermore, the assertion above that ‘oceanic coolness of Boston (Foxborough)’ potentially affecting things does not survive the logic test, as Foxborough is at a minimum 25 miles inland of the Atlantic Ocean, thus eliminating any ocean effect..
Nice try, d!ckheads!
If they are afraid of hot weather hold the World Cup in January, it’s not as hot then.
Hot in a 2.56 million ice age named the Quaternary Glaciation isn’t very impressive. 20% of all the land is either covered by glaciers or permafrost. The ice age won’t end until all the natural ice melts. The Earth is in a warmer interglacial period between glacial periods but that isn’t going to last forever. The glacial periods usually last about 90 thousand years and the interglacial periods usually last around 10,000 years. This current interglacial period has lasted 11,700 years, so it may be getting ready to end.
Interglacials seem to last from 10-30,000 years, but are not clearly defined – assumptions on when they start and finish, definitions of what an interglacial actually is and the mechanisms involved all appear to vary from scientist to scientist. One common assumption is that there is a threshold – on one side is the warmer interglacial with less continental glaciers, and on the other is a glacial period which is colder with far more continental glaciers. On the other hand, there may be a slow, gradual decline into a glaciation with no clearly defined threshold – maybe we’ve been in a glaciation since the little ice age, or even for the last 1,700 years. One thing is for certain; I don’t buy into the climate alarmist’s sense that man-made CO2 will extend our interglacial for tens of thousands of years, that’s just a silly fantasy.
Could, maybe, perhaps, conceivably, possibly….. who knows !!!
Take your pick.
Sorry little red dumb..
Did I leave out some other possible words?
I’m sure you know plenty of wishy-washy ones. !
Story tip…
Colouring-In propaganda for klimate kiddies
Mapping The Weather Channel’s Absurd ‘Heat’ Propaganda – Climate Change Dispatch
Shudda used a sharpie.
I see you are hanging on to your TDS tightly.
WUWT had an article discussing Trump and the hurricane and the sharpie, at the time. You should read it.
He can’t help himself, it’s not like he’s got anything intelligent to say.
“We’ve seen heatwaves, droughts and wildfires in recent years.”
Uh, yuh, never had those back in the 20th century. 🙂
Yes, I remember the previous century. We were happier then…
I certainly hope so!!!!!! Those pretentious assholes need a solid ass f*&king.
Of course, they could do what American sports do in these hot summer periods — play night games!
But that seems to be out of the question, because the big money market for the World Cup is in Europe, and game times are dictated by what works best for European TV. Day games in the hot US, evening viewing in Europe. (That’s exactly what happened in the 1994 World Cup.)
Now there a cellphone cameras everywhere so you can actually see the people at the beach because it is so hot.
I can pretty much guarantee you that no ‘extreme weather’ will strike the Toronto games.
The only ‘extreme weather’ we have ever gotten in my 35 years living here have been some ice storms and bitterly cold spells in the winter.
The so-called ‘heat waves’ have rarely exceeded a mild 35C (I lived in Saudi Arabia in Empty Quarter where it regularly hit mid-40s C). That includes during these ‘HOTTEST EVA’ years.
I don’t think I have ever seen 40C here.
“Canada, the USA and Mexico often get extreme weather”. so these temperatures are normal.
From people who were likely enthusiastic to host the games in Qatar.
From the article: ““Canada, the US and Mexico often get extreme weather. We’ve seen heatwaves, droughts and wildfires in recent years.”
We see these things in *every* year. They are not unusual. It’s called weather.
The U.S., Canada, and Mexico manage to play all the games they want, sometimes interrupted by a thunderstorm. This “weatherman” is wringing his hands over normal weather.
I guess climate change alarmists have to obsess over something or they don’t feel like they are contributing.
From the article: “Far from being record breaking, temperatures of 38C (100F) in Dallas occur virtually every summer.”
Has there ever been a year when Texas did not hit 100F or higher? I bet there is no record of this ever happening.
And why do those charts begin in 1942? Texas was keeping temperature records before that time. The chart leaves out the 1930’s temperature highpoint.
Typical Alarmist propaganda technique:
“Could extreme weather hit the 2026 World Cup?” – Yes that’s possible.
Could a bolt of lighting strike a player as he is about to attempt a penalty kick? – Yes, that’s also possible.
But to varying degrees neither are likely.
The more important point they have finessed is that extreme weather events have not increased in severity or intensity over the last 100 years, so the chances of that happening are the same as they were in say 1930.
San Francisco has a Mediterranean climate?
Since when?