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- climate@slrpnk.net
- cross-posted to:
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- climate@slrpnk.net
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”.
Americans died of Covid, using their final breaths to say it was fake. Survivors of family members who died of Covid still say it’s fake. When LeBron’s kid had a cardiac arrest the other day, a bunch of wacko wingers said it was due to the vaccine. I think there are a lot of dumb ass Americans whose houses will burn down, or whose cities will become unlivable, or whose communities will be overrun by climate refugees, who they will still say it’s some liberal plot to pull one over on everyone.