You can’t have failed to notice it. On both sides of the Atlantic, journalists and activist scientists are, with almost religious zeal, frenetically hyping extreme weather - especially hot weather - in order to re-package summer and sell it to us as a ‘climate emergency’. It’s a desperate ploy and I have to say, I don’t think it’s working. Not after Covid, not after the ‘vaccines’. They’ve blown their cover, but fear-mongering is basically all they’ve got in order to change public perception, so they’re going at it hammer and tongs with the alleged ‘climate crisis’, which is their second major gateway crisis (in addition to pandemic preparedness) required for the introduction of a globalist form of communism which looks a lot like fascism and reeks of stakeholder capitalism.
Here’s an example of the hype at the BBC. Even after temperatures in southern Europe failed to beat the record set in 2021 and didn’t even get anywhere near the 48C recorded in Athens in 1977 and Sardinia in 1965, they’re still pushing the heatwave = climate crisis message, like their lives or livelihoods depend on it. I don’t know, maybe they do. Perhaps that’s what being a shock-jock journalist journalist is like nowadays - ‘Push ze alarmist agenda or ve terminate you.’
Large swathes of southern Europe continue to swelter in record heat as wildfires rage across the continent.
Temperatures hit a high of 46.3C in Sicily on Tuesday, and crews battled fires in Greece and the Swiss Alps.
Most of Italy's major cities are on red alert, meaning the extreme heat carries a health risk to everybody not just vulnerable groups.
Scientists say climate change is making heatwaves longer, more intense and more frequent.
Across the world, millions of people are being impacted by extreme weather; from soaring temperatures in the US and China, to heavy rainfall in East Asia.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says heatwaves will become more severe in the years ahead, and that extreme weather patterns highlight the need for more climate action.
"These events will continue to grow in intensity and the world needs to prepare for more intense heatwaves," said John Nairn, senior extreme heat advisor at the UN agency.
Of course, they’re plugging the wildfires too, as evidence of the catastrophic impact of the ‘climate crisis’, except that, in reality, most of those fires are started deliberately or inadvertently by humans and modern ‘eco-friendly’ forest management practices contribute much to their intensity and spread.
The USA and China also get a mention:
Extreme temperatures have also gripped other parts of the globe including the US and China.
More than 80 million people in western and southern US states are under advisories for a "widespread and oppressive" heatwave.
Temperatures at California's Death Valley hit a near-record 52C (125.6F) Sunday, while on Monday Arizona's state capital Phoenix tied its record of 18 consecutive days above 43C (109.4F).
OMG! Look at all these poor suffering people who flocked to Death Valley to commit almost certain suicide via heat exhaustion just so they could be pictured standing next to the thermometer. It’s just so tragic.
All those mad Brits too, booking holidays in Spain, Greece and Italy, just so they can get away from the washout summer at home and die happy in the deadly climate changed heat which has engulfed southern Europe. Climate emergency tourism is now a thing. It’s weird. Driven, I presume, by some nihilistic urge towards self-destruction, folks are not running for the hills; quite the reverse, they’re running straight for the hellish centre of the Climate Change Inferno itself. Like Storm Chasers I guess, but those who want to actually be sucked up and spat out by the whirling winds of the tornado just so their obituary can read: ‘I was there. I got the T-shirt.’
There’s the thing though: after the ‘hottest June ever’ in the UK, the summer has gone AWOL and we are having to put up with cool temperatures, wind and rain, more reminiscent of autumn than summer. This is part and parcel of the same weather system (driven by a southerly jet stream configuration) which is responsible for the heatwave in southern Europe, as I explained here:
The BBC have been forced to admit this fact and reluctantly consign dreams of a return of 40C+ temperatures in the UK this summer to the waste bin of media propaganda history:
While the intense heatwave continues across southern Europe, the United Kingdom has been much cooler and wetter.
Weather patterns have been stuck in the same position and there is no real sign of that changing.
The UK therefore is not likely to see any of that extreme heat in the coming days or weeks.
So when are we likely to see any warmth return?
After the UK's warmest June on record, the weather patterns took a significant shift.
We said goodbye to high pressure which brings generally settled weather and a feed of warmer air from the south and replaced it with low pressure bringing rain and cooler weather.
This change was due to movement of the jet stream - a fast wind high in the atmosphere.
To the north of the jet stream you have the cooler Arctic air with rain-bearing weather systems being formed. To the south is where the warmer tropical air sits.
The north-to-south movement of the jet stream dictates, therefore, how warm or cool it might be in any location.
Right now, the jet stream is stuck in a position through central Europe and we call this a blocked weather pattern.
Here is their graphic to illustrate what is happening:
The BBC of course, being unable to reconcile the fact that natural weather patterns are causing the heatwave in southern Europe, have to grasp at straws by suggesting that there might just be a connection with a wavier jet stream and climate change. It’s really quite pathetic to be honest:
Whether climate change is having an impact on blocked weather patterns responsible for the current heatwave is complex and not entirely clear.
Cliff Mass, a professional meteorologist, who has also published on the subject, is very clear:
So heatwaves are localized (and transient) conditions and only a small portion of the globe is experiencing unusual warmth. Greenhouse warming from greenhouse gases is much more uniform.
So what is causing the localized warming? The answer is very evident if we plot the upper-level map (for 500 hPa, about 18,000 ft) at the same time (see below). Blue areas indicate troughing (low pressure) and red areas indicate ridging (high pressure).
The warm areas are closely associated with ridging aloft and cool areas with upper-level troughing. Ridging is associated with sinking air and warming. The opposite with troughing. Ridges and troughs also have wind patterns that can move tropical warmth poleward (and vice versa).
Such wave patterns are quite natural. There is no convincing evidence that the atmosphere becomes wavier (thus with more heatwaves and cold waves) under global warming. I have read all the literature on this and have published on the topic myself in the peer-reviewed literature.
The waviness of the upper-level flow was particularly high-amplitude this winter and spring, producing enhanced cooling in some areas and warming in others. Such as the cool/wet conditions in California, and warmth in southern Canada.
Let me repeat: there is no reason to think this waviness is other than the expression of the natural variability of the atmosphere.
Even though there are continued and repeated attempts to link jet stream configuration with generalised global warming, Cliff mass is very much not alone in dismissing what is essentially just a hypothesis because of a lack of clear, credible, robust scientific evidence.
But we won’t have heard the last of it. I guarantee it.
Thank you Jamie for all of your excellent work. I know it is past it's best before date, but did you see The Guardian's "World experiences hottest week ever recorded and more is forecast to come" published 16th July? It includes a "What is supercharging the global heat? – video explainer." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/16/red-alert-the-worlds-hottest-week-ever-and-more-is-to-forecast-to-come
The catastrophic climate psychopaths appear to be getting off on their fear mongering as they blame everything on fossil fuels.
These people will be feeling sad because lots of people didn't die in a record breaking 48 deg heatwave. These people are longing and wishing for other people to suffer and to die, just to prove a pointl.