27-07-2023, 09:27 AM
(25-07-2023, 10:55 PM)tvchris Wrote: Good to see the BBC's Tomasz Schafernaker correcting GB News today about heat temperatures. Neil Oliver made up loads of lies on the Dan Wootton programme last night.
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Not sure Oliver was wrong.
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It appears broadcasters picked up on the European Space Agency's report that used ground temperature predictions, but said they were air temperatures.
"Temperatures are sizzling across Europe this week amid an intense and prolonged period of heat. And it’s only just begun. Italy, Spain, France, Germany and Poland are all facing a major heatwave with air temperatures expected to climb to 48°C on the islands of Sicily and Sardinia – potentially the hottest temperatures ever recorded in Europe.”
The original ESA report continued, only later specifying that it was in fact referring to surface temperature (emphasis added):
"The animation below uses data from the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission’s radiometer instrument and shows the land surface temperature across Italy between 9 and 10 July. As the image clearly shows, in some cities the surface of the land exceeded 45°C, including Rome, Naples, Taranto and Foggia. Along the east slopes of Mount Etna in Sicily, many temperatures were recorded as over 50°C.”