Didn’t know the first one ended, let alone the fourth.
Fuck the BBC. Not a single mention of climate change in the entire article.
In fairness the BBC is constantly mentioning climate change in it’s reporting of this summer.
Is it? Every article I open has it either as a glaring omission or a single line near the bottom of the article.
Its a long range forecast not an explainer.
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Good luck finding any mention of climate change in the multitude of articles in the weather section. The BBC editorial stance is to deny climate change as much as they can without outright denying it. They do this mostly through omitting to mention it.
A major driver is that climate is changing as a result of the well-documented way humanity is burning fossil fuels. Temperatures are only rising.
Paragraph 2 of the Fifth story down on the BBC News front page at this precise moment. Lawks.
The Weather section is, unsurprisingly, concerned mainly with weather rather than climate. However:
Are we in for a summer of serial heatwaves?
Human-induced climate change is shifting the baseline temperature higher and this is making our heatwaves hotter, more frequent and longer lasting.
How hot a 1976-style heatwave would be today
In the 50 years since the record-breaking heatwave of 1976, scientists say that the influence of human-induced climate change means that should similar weather patterns occur again we could expect our weather to be much hotter.
Followed by “But…”
And then spends the rest of the article talking about cigarettes and BBQs instead of why the country is as dry as a tinderbox.
There’s no explanation of climate, only “those bad autistic criminals throwing cigarettes around”.
Like I said, they deny without outright denying.
Again, its a weather section, they aren’t the ones dealing with climate.
The article you linked isn’t in the weather section.
And if weather isn’t affected by climate then what is?..
BBC Weather is the department that prepares forecasts, advice, and occasional explainers about weather - the practical aspects in the immediate term, but not really long-term trends or mechanisms. It is not part of BBC News.
BBC News has its own Climate desk, with a Climate Editor. It frequently reports on human-influenced climate change.
When do we redefine the threshold for heatwave?
This is normal… Right?
Yeah, we get record temperatures every year, its nothing new.
As to normality I will not remark - but I know you will recall this mild weather fondly.
Of course, its the coolest summer the UK is going to have in years!
Next year people can say “still not as dry as
19762026”
it is now.
