Detox. No, the climate emergency is not exaggerated by the media

The many reports on global warming may follow one another, some citizens refuse to believe in its reality. On Twitter, a publication shared more than 4,500 times accuses the media of exaggerating the danger, and shares two photographs of weather forecasts in Sweden dated 1986 and 2022, showing identical temperatures. ” In 1986, it was called a normal summer. Today they’re coloring the map red and calling it extreme heat “denounces a user.

Is the climate emergency nothing more than a question of colors in the country of Greta Thunberg? By carrying out a reverse image search, Désintox was able to realize that these two presentations of the weather have already been manipulated. The image on the left, where the clouds and the sun appear, is taken from a weather report from the Swedish public television channel SVT showing the weather for July 20, 2016, not 1986.

As for the other, it is the weather report for August 13, 2021, presented by meteorologist Madeleine Westin on the TV4 channel. And dressing in red is not some new scaremongering sleight of hand. The presenter first shows the forecast with indications of the weather, then switches to the maximum temperatures, which then appear in the form of a color gradient.

According to data compiled by the Swedish Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, from 1986 to 2021 the average summer temperature has increased by more than 2 degrees. And the country has experienced several episodes of heat wave in recent years.

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