False Claims that Heatwave is Bogus Spread Online

Deny, deny, deny. Now climate change deniers are doing that even to observable, recordable phenomena, just to avoid the truth of what is happening. This is what's stopping progress towards saving our children's future.

So we've actually gotten to the point where these idiots will argue whether or not it's hot outside. I knew people could be stupid/crazy, I just didn't realize how many of them there are.

All these dumb fucks have to do is actually go outside to prove themselves wrong.

This is my parents, who emigrated from Europe in 80s.

"Greece is always this hot in the summer"

"I remember 40 degree weather when I was a kid, no one was complaining then"

"Do they expect the Mediterranean not to get hot?"

I hate to see it, especially since they're both otherwise smart people. They're just completely taken in by climate denialism.

My brother in christ, just go out.

Boomers gonna boomer ¯(ツ)_/¯

At the end of the day, they're again the ones that are going to suffer the most with the higher temperatures, it's kind of like karma really.

How does anyone maintain even a shred of hope in the face of this rampant bullshittery?

I was on holiday in southern Europe. I was there at 43° Celsius. I know a person who witnessed 47 more southern. In places where these temperatures have been seen only over the past 10 years

I mean, it's pretty simple to know the temperature, thermometers exists. Just call someone in southern Europe and ask

If these people were on fire and their talking heads told them they weren't they would say they weren't.

well, the millions who live there and the millions upon millions with heat waves all over the world aren’t fooled. almost no one denies climate issues now, other than people paid to do so, and soon even they will be forced to stop. too busy dealing with climate fallout they themselves experience.

Maybe they're really reptilians. The hotter, the better, they don't sweat

These fucking idiots are going to get us all killed one day.

GBNews is basically the Fox News of the UK now, arguably worse. We came pretty close to getting it to shut down entirely when we managed to get 100% of advertisers to pull out of it, an honestly massive organising success by us at the time and one I was partly involved with, though we certainly weren't the only group pushing it we were one of the main ones. This coupled with a very lackluster launch and absolutely abysmal ratings really made it come close to getting shut down.

Sadly they were content to run it at a loss while reshuffling their approach, eventually they bounced back.

Mr Oliver accused the BBC, and other broadcasters, of trying to "make people terrified of the weather".

As we should be. These changes on our planet will be the end of us.

If some dumb fuck can bring a snowball into congress to show global warming isn’t real, then I should be able to bring an air conditioner and say “then what’s this for” and be taken equally as seriously.

Are these trolls literally living in their parents' basements? Like not going outside to notice it is, indeed, hot?

For god's sake temperatures above 40 Celsius are dangerous and claims like this will literally kill some people... But again, after everything happening in the last 3-4 years it's hard to imagine conservatives putting other folks' health and safety as a priority

I live in Greece. The past couple of weeks have been really hot. Today we have a significant drop in temperatures, at last.

Mr Oliver needs to get out more.

I think we need to get used to a new "life law" that has arisen as a fruit of echo chambers, too much information (regardless of its veracity) and modern recommendation algorithms: "For every important global event, there will be a small portion of deniers."

Besides education at early ages, I don't see a way this trend can be stopped. "Denying" will mutate across different topics (chem-trails, vaccines, the shape of the earth). I'm starting to perceive it like the flu, a seasonal disease with no permanent cure which we just take for granted. When you do your new years resolution/planning you should remember to subtract 2 weeks from your time because certainly you will be ill, it's a constant. My head has grown accustomed to expecting this constant flux of fake-information-toxicity to appear in "obvious universal problems"

Meanwhile in some places there were temperatures statistically impossible to reach...

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.

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Ugh, is the urban heat island theory gaining popularity again?