This will bring out the fact checkers…. Saying “missing context”…. “Doesn’t prove climate change isn’t real.” etc.
Well I’m not out to prove that, when I am out the show is that using color you can make it look worse than it is. And that’s exactly what they did here in Germany. The temperatures are in centigrade, the colors are from hell.
Propaganda, pure propaganda
Wow! And I bet they feel entitled, and doing their part in saving the earth, and not even slightly chagrinned at the cheating revelation. Good catch and posting.
More importantly, the Weather Person looks hotter too.
You know, I bet there is a demand for a 24*7 weather channel with weather bunny meteorologists. And only weather bunny meteorologists.
And since only women are hired, you could save 22% on salaries.
Not only female in UK we have Tomasz Schafernaker and Alex Beresford on national forecasts. Locally we have Des Coleman as the token males.
Yes, she’s a “hot chick,” unlike the 2017 broadcaster. Could she be where the warming is coming from?
Proof positive warming greens the planet and cold spells danger folks.
Thank you Dr David for this succinct and amusing demonstration of media manipulation.
22C is in the red?
The climate hysteria I see around me seems based on some sort of fridge world. A world where temperatures above 5C are deemed hot….
“UK hot weather forecast: 20C heatwave as TWO WEEK ‘Saharan sizzler’ to blast Britain”
https://www.express.co.uk/news/weather/1583128/UK-hot-weather-forecast-met-office-latest-updates-march-2022-heatwave
Seriously? A 20C heatwave? Well, the kids might believe it.
“UK weather forecast: High pressure airstream sweeps in as Britain to sizzle in scorching 20C heat”
https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1657028092789923840
“The Met Office and BBC Weather have already forecasted “mild” weather to sweep Britain in March, and now it looks like 20C could be on the cards”
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/uk-weather-brits-sizzle-20c-21575388
On the colour scheme used to ram home a point.
“We found two distinct themes in visual coverage. The first used images of “fun in the sun” that depicted heatwaves as something enjoyable. In all four countries, the majority of these images showed people having a good time in or by water. This was particularly prominent in the UK, perhaps saying something about how British culture narrates the experience of very hot weather in our historically mild climate.
The second theme we found was “the idea of heat”, depicted through red and orange colours, which are (in western cultures) commonly associated with heat or danger. People were largely absent from this visual discourse in photos such as generic stock photographs of thermometers against a blindingly hot sun. When people were pictured, they were depersonalised by silhouetting them against the sun so their faces were not visible.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/14/sun-photos-climate-breakdown
Narrating the experience of very hot weather
Nice day yesterday, John
It was great
Could do with a few more like that…
Yeah!
That’s real panic.
20 C is the same as 68 F which is mild weather in my area no wonder the brits have gone soft as it is 30 F below their average body temperature.
Right now, it is already 71F in my area forecast to reach a warm 91F. which doesn’t bother anyone except warmist/alarmists who hide in their basement shaking in fear of a nonexistent problem.
The Met Office and the media are doing their best to soften us up
21 – 06 so it’s warm on the longest day of the year. What a surprise.
Wow. “When I was a kid” STP standard temperature and pressure was 25C. Now STP is either 20C or 0C. What happened, I can’t believe my dusty old engineering professors just shrugged and let them have it. Maybe they were “working from home” when it happened.
I grew up using an STP temp of 15°C 🙂
(International Standard Atmosphere – currently used by ICAO, FAA, WMO….)
I just checked Wikipedia. The technical definition is 0 decrees C and 1 atmosphere (since 1982, 100 kPa).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_temperature_and_pressure
Hi, Don’t read the text on Wikipedia. It’s always corrupted by activists who lie. It’s obvious that STP is not feezing. Who sets their laboratory to kill the fish in the corner office?
From the very same page it shows STP to be 25°C or 20°C depending on whom you ask.
Read the table:
Just look up your table where it states ‘STP’. Easy task, should it be….
“Outdoors soars to room temperature: citizens urged to shelter in place”
/sarc, obviously. Poor Babylon Bee and their ilk. Real life is stranger than satire.
G’Day Elliot.
“Poor Babylon Bee…”
Yes indeed. Someone went back through their earlier satirical posts. Turned out that about 20% of their laugh inducing/head shaking articles came true. That’s better than most of the climate prognostications.
Same in Australia but they prefer orange red and black!
In New Zealand they prefer the All Blacks.
Or, as Joe Biden calls them, the Black and Tans.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/13/white-house-corrects-black-and-tans-to-all-blacks-after-biden-gaffe
An eminently understandable confusion for a woke lefty like sleepy Joe. Minds can often wander off to matters like women’s sport and affirmative action with the Black and Trans. Tough gig keeping up with Woke-Speak vs Miss-Speak.
I mean, how much more black can you get than black – and the answer is none. None more black. H/T spinal tap…
I know a woman that said that she didn’t need to wear black, but it would do until something darker came along.
Germany’s Green Party has been given a bloody nose at the polls after a plan to ban gas heating has gone down badly on the doorstep.
At elections in Bremen on Sunday, the Greens won just 12 per cent of the vote.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/05/15/germany-green-party-gas-heating-ban-bremen-election/
That’s one reason the greens favour ‘citizen fora’ instead of democracy
Democracy still works for the socialists in Bremen; the Greens are down but the SDP is up by about the same amount.
So nothing changes. The policy will be exactly the same. When will the learn.
“Greens won just 12 per cent of the vote“. In 1999, someone might have said What!? 12 percent!! That’s unbelievable! All the redundant exclamation points would have conveyed disbelief that green could score so high.
Best termed, the scorched earth strategy… or simply b.s. deception. Changing background color to red … omg it’s global warming.
Classic! I’d noticed this myself, they do it, with global temperatures. They’ve even used red for the arctic rising temperatures.
Reminded me of this old post.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/06/26/color-and-temperature-perception-is-everything/
PS I wonder how infrared would look on a weather map? 😎
Well, of course climate change is real. The climate has always changed and will always change. Heck, climate change is the natural state of things.
Please describe the changes to the global climate over the past 120 years. If you say anything more than slightly warmer, wetter and greener then you would be wrong. There have been no changes in the frequency, intensity and duration of any extreme weather events over that period other than normal annual to multi-decadal variations.
Wow a man with a PHD making a fool of himself in public with his easy to prove lies.
This comment by Sunset has me baffled.
I was referring to Dr. Eli David it appears I have misjudged it…………..
Understood and forgiven.
I’m often reminded here of what my foot tastes like! 😎
I think that was scarcasm at the proof of the Weather idiots in pictures any child could understand!
Trust in media is inversely related to CO2 in the atmosphere*:
https://fortune.com/2023/02/15/trust-in-media-low-misinform-mislead-biased-republicans-democrats-poll-gallup/
My interpretation, not of the Fortune article.
It’s simple. without alarming colours, climate change isn’t visible.
Because, there is nothing to see here, go along…
It’s a colorized version of climate media bias. Save it as a poster for future generations to learn how they were duped on a daily basis.
This type of colour coding also changes from time to time, especially when colder conditions prevail ie Blue colours are changed to yellow, which has happened with the Pacific charts
and the Arctic when these areas were getting colder.
I have also notice that the UK Met Office CET charts are showing above average temperatures this spring, Most gardeners would say that this spring has been slightly below average. Checking the CET chart I noticed that the average was based on average temperatures between 1960 / 1990 Which not surprisingly were a very cold period.
In fact it was the same as for the period 1650 to 2023 Which included the Mini Ice age.
Why do the Met office and the BBC especially give very distorted facts on Climate and weather.
That’s their job
They support the narrative.
They don’t report.
Even if the story about lemmings & cliffs had a scintilla of truth about it – it’s got nothing on this.
This reminds me of an infamous incident more than a decade ago. The CBS Morning News did a segment on ‘global warming’ which was illustrated by a US map of February temperature anomalies. The map showed many shades of angry red and said the source was NOAA. I was confused by this because I knew the western US had suffered record cold that winter. So I looked up the original NOAA map, and there were cold anomalies in the western US and warm in the eastern US. CBS News graphics had taken the ABSOLUTE VALUES of the anomalies and shaded them all red. Most viewers saw the graphic for just a few seconds. Just long enough to register as dangerously hot. 🙁
Then there was the time that Al Gore made a speech about global warming outdoors in Washington DC in January. It might have played well on TV in people’s cozy living rooms, but Gore’s live audience wasn’t feeling the warming. Brrrr!
(assuming the viewers knew what an ABSOLUTE VALUE is)
The point is the graphic was NOT labeled “absolute value”. It was a deliberate deception, presenting the viewer with a map of temperature anomalies, all red.
Even the wisest viewer would conclude that the temperatures across the US were all above normal.
Manmade climate change in a 5 day forecast. Enjoy
https://youtu.be/zbHW1T7boSc
Training people with visual stimuli, looking for a Pavlovian response
Maybe we are supposed to start sweating when we see red weather maps.
Or give our credit card to greenpeace?
They tried to make it “look” warmer with the red colors in 2022 as compared to the green in 2017, even though the actual temperatures were warmer in 2017.
And, speaking of the woman presenting the weather report, she was wearing a blue dress with short sleeves in 2017 in front of a green map, but a black pantsuit with long sleeves (which would really soak up the sun on the summer solstice) in 2022 in front of a red map. But if the first woman really came in from 33 C (91 F) in 2017, you can’t blame her for wearing short sleeves!
Did I ever tell you guys I don’t like these people?
And the beat goes on. Anyone half aware of the scam could have predicted that some people claiming to be “scientists” would make this claim after Mocha hit Myanmar. It is even more predictable than the sun rising.
Climate change makes cyclones more intense, destructive: scientists (msn.com)
Though skepticism is great, knowledge is the ultimate antidote for so called “scientists” lying and then having their lies promoted by so called “journalists” that are nothing more than stenographers who don’t do even superficial fact checking.
History and weather records are the enemy of the scammers. And here is the history:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fv8he5BWYAcOYuk?format=jpg&name=large
Besides the fact that the bulk of killer cyclones in the region occurred before the 20th century please note that #1 and #8 occurred in the 70’s when global cooling and a possible coming ice age was the scare the “scientists” were selling and the “news” was promoting.
Note: Though a final tally is not out yet, it appears that the death toll from Mocha is surprisingly low relative to the history despite the storm being a CAT 4 and nearly a 5 when it made landfall along a coastline with a huge area at or below 2 meters above sea level.
Deaths caused by weather … weather satellites… wtf?
“the bulk of killer cyclones in the region occurred before the 20th century” I sure as [self-edit] hope so!
There were weather satellites up, including geosynchronous ones, when #1 and 8 occurred and yet the highest death toll is 1970 and the one in 75 fits right in with the average during the 1800s.
As I write this the death count from Mocha stands at 32. So the obvious question is what changed? My vote goes for better communications via the internet and cell phones.
Another example of the climate alarmists’ desperation. Brighter colors=hotter temperatures or so they want the uninitiated to believe. Natural annual variations don’t exist any more.
Bbbbbrrrrrr..
Talk about fakery at the bakery.
I saw a weather map on Fox News yesterday, and it looked like the whole West Coast was on fire! Red everywhere.
I think the highest temperature forecast for that area was around 90F. The map made it look like 120F.
Nice weather for a couple of bier. Prost!