Listen to Weather Forecasters (not right-wing media)
It is true that UK weather forecasts can sometimes go on longer than most people need or like. Most people simply want to know the weather!
But for the most part, most of the weather presenters on TV are qualified meteorologists, and know their onions, when it comes to both weather and climate science. Most trained at the Met Office.
After President Trump said that ‘climate change is a con’, ITV Morning’s presenter Laura Tobin has publicly offered to discuss climate science with him, saying she is available to go through the data with his administration.
She obviously frequently reports on human-caused climate change weather events, like floods, rising sea levels and melting glaciers. So far she has not received a response.
How much of climate change is caused by humans? Nearly all of it. Dr John Tobin (climate scientist)
Recently on GB News, one presenter (unbelievably the previous wonderful Coast presenter Neil Oliver who should know his nature) asked people to persuade him that ‘climate change wasn’t a scam’.
He said that the media and MPs were scaremongering people to be ‘‘frightened of summer’ predictions of at least 40 degrees.
But BBC meteorologist Tomasz Schafermaker says this was air temperature (above 1 metre). Not ground temperatures, which will have been higher (sometimes in excess of 50 C). This is the problem when we have MPs and media pundits deciding how serious climate change is, rather than listening to scientists.
Tomasz is often called ‘the nation’s favourite weather forecaster’, using his highly trained mind to give easy forecasts. He even sometimes presents Radio’s 4’s Shipping Forecast (the nation’s lullaby). Born in Poland, he has a BSc (Hons) in Meteorology, so likely knows more about extreme weather and climate change than scaremongers and politicians who deny the facts.
