Meteorologists are discovering that if they want to get attention from the media and more clicks and likes (short term), then all they have to do is announce fictional heat waves that weather models routinely hallucinate 10-14 days out, e.g., “Temperatures could soar to 40°C!” [emphasis, links added]
German online magazine Weltwoche reports on this phenomenon with a recent article titled: “After the ‘heat wave’ comes the ‘red-hot wave’: The climate alarmists are making themselves look absurd and losing all credibility.”
In an attempt to sensationalize hot summer weather to convey climate urgency and panic, some German meteorologists have been bombarding their viewers with alarming headlines like, “This summer threatens to shatter all weather records!”
Climate alarmists have been fixated on regular weather extremes and using dramatic imagery of storms, droughts, and collapsing Swiss mountains to sway public opinion, while totally ignoring the lack of statistical evidence for an increase in such phenomena.
The increased emphasis on “human-driven warming,” “human-caused global warming” and/or “man-made planet warming gases” as the underlying cause for every bad weather event is not only intellectually lazy, but it also has a very sinister Malthusian-esque undertone.
Alarmist… pic.twitter.com/Uyp9omBv7n
— Chris Martz (@ChrisMartzWX) January 4, 2025
Weltwoche reports, however, that the increasingly shrill weather rhetoric is backfiring, leading to greater mistrust among a growing number of skeptics who use social media platforms like X to mock and ridicule the sensationalized claims.
Thanks to social media, Weltwoche concludes that the era of media monopolies on truth is over: “But the shriller the battle cries of the climate alarmists, the less credible they become.”
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Here in the Denver area the NBC affiliate (9News) has changed the name of their weather team to the “Weather Impact Team” and the let us know when the next day is going to be a Weather Impact Day. That might be because there’s a chance for a snow storm, or “severe” thunderstorm (which seems to be any thunderstorm is “Severe”), or “Heat Wave”. Well today is such a day with temps going up near 100F which is not unusual for us. So everything they hype as “Oh my gawd the sky is falling” is something we have regularly experienced in the 40 years I’ve lived in this area. Before “Climate Change” took over for these people they (and we) just called it “Weather” because that’s what happened.
Today is the first day of Summer after their little Juneteenth Break and it will be Summer until Sept but so far our weather here has been Mild