The Heatwave In Southern Europe And The Mysterious Vanishing Act Of 40C Heatwave Propaganda In The UK

Weird. ‘40C - it could happen again this year’ was all the rage in the lamestream media and Met Office press releases just a few weeks ago, when we had our ‘hottest June ever’. We were being warned about a coming series of deadly heatwaves over the summer which could push temperatures back over 40C, unheard of until last year.

Well, July is turning out to be cool, wet and windy and it looks like it will stay that way until the end of the month. Cue, 40C UK heatwave propaganda has done a vanishing act in the UK press who have moved on seamlessly to alarming us all about a heatwave in southern Europe instead. I mean, it’s hot in Spain, Greece and Italy, in mid July. The horror! How unprecedented is that? It never happened before climate change, no siree.

However, the extreme heat in southern Europe and the washout July in the British Isles are inextricably linked via the jet stream. So, if the pavements in Rome are hot enough to cook a pizza on and the Retsina in Greece is getting mulled, and it’s all because of ‘climate breakdown’, then the fact that it’s pissing down here in the UK must also be because not enough people have bought EVs or installed electric heat pumps.

A look at the current jet stream configuration over Europe explains perfectly why Italy and Greece are being baked and the UK is not:

The southerly jet stream is drawing cool, moist Atlantic air across the UK and France, which is also squeezing and trapping hot air originating from North Africa across southern Europe. In particular there is a ridge of intense high pressure over the Mediterranean encompassing Tunisia and Algeria and Greece and Italy, which is causing the high temperatures we are seeing there at the moment. So this July, in contrast to last July, we’re not getting the northern Europe heatwave/’climate crisis’ propaganda; the nutters have switched their attention to southern Europe instead, where they are trying to convince us that temperatures of 40C+ are highly unusual, even unprecedented. But they’re not.

Many high temperature records were set in Greece in the 70s, a few even in the 50s.

The press won’t tell you about that. All they say is that the record for southern Europe of 48.8C was set in 2021, implying that temperatures well above 40C are a new thing.

The highest temperature ever recorded for the month of July in Greece was 48.0C, set on July 10th 1977, when the main climate scare in the press was not man-made Thermageddon, but the coming of a new Ice Age.

It’s a similar story with Italy:

Whilst it’s true that there are a preponderance of hot records set in the 21st century, with Sicily recording the ‘hottest ever’ of 48.8C on August 11 2021, you will note that nearby Sardinia registered 48.0C on the thermometer way back in 1965 when the planet was in the grip of pronounced cooling. How could this even be possible if global warming causes heatwaves? Also, there are probably a number of reasons why temperature records are more frequent now: simple statistical bias inherent in short temperature records, urbanisation, land use changes and possibly even changes in the pattern of general circulation over Europe (i.e. the jet stream). We don’t have to invoke an existential climate crisis to explain why it’s hot in southern Europe in summer! We also shouldn’t have to put up with the ridiculous, ludicrous, absurd BBC telling us it hasn’t been this hot since hippos roamed the Thames FFS!

The Italian Met office has lost the plot as well. They’ve gone full climate crazy, comparing the current heatwave to visions of Dante’s Inferno:

The current heatwave in Europe has been named Cerberus by the Italian Meteorological Society, after the three-headed monster that features in Dante's Inferno.

Italian weather forecasters are warning that the next heatwave - dubbed Charon after the ferryman who delivered souls into the underworld in Greek mythology - could push temperatures back up above 40C next week.

When winter comes, you can forget about three-headed hell hounds and Thames hippos and phantom ferrymen. Think instead about the Inuit and their saying ‘Three Dog Night’, meaning a night so cold that you will need three huskies on the bed to keep you warm! Because if the climate fanatics get their way with ‘clean’ energy, the lights (and your central heating) will surely be going off on icy cold, still winter days and you will need three large dogs on the bed to keep you warm; not cats, not chihuahuas. I’ve only got two, so thinking seriously about rescuing a third!