False claims suggesting that the BBC has been misreporting temperatures in southern Europe have been spreading on social media.
A clip of Neil Oliver, a GB News presenter, accusing the BBC “and others” of “driving fear” by using “supposedly terrifying temperatures”, has been viewed more than two million times.
For the past few weeks, an intense heatwave has been sweeping through parts of southern Europe and north Africa, with extensive wildfires breaking out in Greece, Italy and Algeria - leading to more than 40 deaths.
Speaking about the fires on Rhodes on GB News on Monday, Mr Oliver accused the BBC, and other broadcasters, of trying to “make people terrified of the weather”.
I cannot disprove the worldwide claims. But I live in Spain in southern Europe and this past month has been far better than last July was, when we were hitting 38C every day for weeks on end. The heat this summer has been much more punctuated.
That’s why the term global warming is misleading and climate change is a better term. But like you said it’s just that a global average and not just individual places
38 x 2 = 76
-10%=68.4
Add 32=100.4 degrees F
ok…And your point is?
Theyre just converting the units for people who don’t know Celsius as a baseline. They also just happened to show their work like a homework assignment
Like a homework assignmentOr to show others how to do it. Like a teacher.
fair enough