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UK weather: Fifth heatwave of year likely as temperatures could hit 35C (www.bbc.co.uk)

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[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Fuck the BBC. Not a single mention of climate change in the entire article.

[–] BananaTrifleViolin@piefed.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

In fairness the BBC is constantly mentioning climate change in it's reporting of this summer.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 1 points 4 days ago

Is it? Every article I open has it either as a glaring omission or a single line near the bottom of the article.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Its a long range forecast not an explainer.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk -3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Mission, values and public purposes

To provide impartial news and information to help people understand and engage with the world around them

The BBC should provide duly accurate and impartial news, current affairs and factual programming to build people’s understanding of all parts of the United Kingdom and of the wider world. Its content should be provided to the highest editorial standards. It should offer a range and depth of analysis and content not widely available from other United Kingdom news providers, using the highest calibre presenters and journalists, and championing freedom of expression, so that all audiences can engage fully with major local, regional, national, United Kingdom and global issues and participate in the democratic process, at all levels, as active and informed citizens.

https://www.bbc.com/aboutthebbc/governance/mission

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.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk -3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Again, its a weather section, they aren’t the ones dealing with climate.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The article you linked isn't in the weather section.

And if weather isn't affected by climate then what is?...

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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.