By Paul Homewood
Ben Rich kicks off the year with his latest Weather Climate Check:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/60377589
That introductory sentence tells us all we need to know about his motive.
He spends the first half of the video talking about snow in New England, Japan, Greece and the Middle East. You know, the white stuff that we were assured would soon be a thing of the past.
He then rolls onto a drought in Spain, where rainfall last month was a quarter the average. Naturally there is no attempt to put this into perspective. We have to consult Bloomberg to learn that:
“Spain is experiencing its second-driest start to the year so far this century”
Yes, the second driest in 22 years! Shock, horror!!
But what about those heatwaves? Well apparently Buenos Aires had its hottest day since January 1957. Meanwhile in Australia, a temperature of 50.7C was recorded in Onslow, matching that measured at Oodnadtta Airport in January 1960.
The Onslow record has not even been officially confirmed yet. If daily records had any climatological relevance, we should note that six of the eight states were set records during the 20thC:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/extreme/records.shtml
Across Australia as a whole, last month was unremarkable as far as temperatures were concerned, ranking just 20th hottest.
Ben Rich finishes off with the two tropical cyclones which have hit Madagascar this year. But these events are not unusual. In the Southern Indian Ocean, there are typically a dozen or so every year.
The cyclone season normally runs from November to May. So far this season has seen three cyclones, Ana, Batsirai and Cliff. so we will probably end up below average.
It is often the case that tropical storms alleviate drought, which is the case in Madagascar at the moment.
Ben Rich does his usual job of presenting a few assorted bad weather events, claiming that they are somehow tied into climate change, but without providing the slightest evidence.
He finishes:
“And 2022 has already seen extremes of weather around the globe, which are likely to become more frequent as the world continues to warm”
It is time this propaganda was taken off air.
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February 17, 2022 at 09:42AM
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