RTE News boss apologises for not linking 5 hot days in late July to climate change

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/rte-news-boss-apologises-for-broadcaster-not-linking-recent-extreme-weather-events-to-climate-change-40692616.html

He says it was a mistake not to link the recent summer weather to climate change. Vows to do better in the future.

A few hot summer days.

In July.

Has to be because of climate change surely?

Was it ever hot in the summer before?

chrissb8

RTE just kicking themselves that they missed out on a chance to turn something positive into a negative again.

Ultimate Gowlbag

Thats crazy,cant have a few good or bad days in a row without it being climate change.....maybe a month or 2 and id get it!

agoodpunt

Every extreme weather event is well and trully linked to it its the new order must be all quite on the artic melting front

Those who lived to see it can tell of hot summers in the 1940's, 50's, 60's 70's, etc.

Climate change is a real thing, but this RTE big shot clown is just virtue signalling.

Bobblehats

A few days of calm in this day n age? Not a chance without they’ll rail against that too looking to denounce it as something more sinister. You bow to this madness you’re worse, just pull the plug on the tweeter machine be done with it

Parsnips

Was the great snow of 1981 linked to climate change aswell.

Pathethic

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117666262#Comment_117666262

Good morning, it's a lovely sunny day outside, you might feel happy about that but, hold on, this is actually a symptom of our planet dieing...

Suckit

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117666262#Comment_117666262

RTE kicking themselves because they missed out on a chance to follow suit with the rest of the world (or the UK, USA and Germany)

They are currently falling over themselves to find minorities to employ that are also related to staff in there.

They aren't yet sure what their opinion on that is.

chrissb8

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117666284#Comment_117666284

The whole of Covid was the same.

Claire Byrne: "This Delta Variant is of huge concern to the public"

Health Expert: "It is, but in reality with the scale of the vaccination programme and the proportion of already vaccinated we should be ok. And as we can see with the continued reopening plan the government has liaised with health organisations to ensure every precaution has been taken"

Claire Byrne: "But the Delta Variant is something we should really be thinking about"

Health Expert (in an alternate reality): "Listen Claire, RTE, Joe Duffy's left foot, unless you are qualified in virology or some other relevant field to formulate a relevant opinion than please do. Otherwise just shut up and defer to the experts who have told you it is fine. Stop dragging up more fear after what has been a very tough year and a half and just have a f****g pint or something and enjoy yourself"

Suckit

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117666284#Comment_117666284

https://eand.co/this-isnt-a-heatwave-it-s-a-dying-planet-ac1c9eb529d1?source=false---------0

Atlantic Dawn

Probably looking for a €10 million budget increase from government to have an extreme weather department where they will send notifications to every home in the country to put on Factor 50.

I wouldn't mind but they regularly feature complete unchallenged one way trash on Eco Eye and Room To Improve where they classify homes with wood burning stoves in built up areas as sustainable or try to make an €80k insulation upgrade on a home currently using less than €2k in total a year to heat itself as a viable investment.

fritzelly

Sunny days in Ireland have now been "cancelled" - or in the eyes of RTE this is too much like good news we, have to make the populace feel guilty for 5 days of sunshine among the 360 other days of rain. Hell covid is becoming a thing of the past so we need something new to whip people with

And they let Dee stay on another 2 years to complete cost cutting measures, cost cutting measures that have never happened and never will, in fact a new boss would be the one more likely to implement the measures

RTE as corrupt as ever

Del2005

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117666284#Comment_117666284

The planet isn't dieing, its been through far worse. Its maybe getting rid of an infection but the planet will still be alive long after humans are extinct.

kefflin

Absolutely ridiculous

Curious_Case

It must be a median weather curve outlier (they have phrases for everything these days).

Seeing as it's RTE maybe there's an "explainer" to click on.

Cap peaks to the back everybody.

Curious_Case

Maybe I'm a "this isn't nonsense" denier !!!

olestoepoke

RTE virtue signalling again, shock horror.

Purgative

Yep. Seems that its not really news these days unless its scaring the bejesus out of someone.

magicbastarder

well, this thread gets off to a flying start. the thread title is adulterated to say something the title in the newspaper doesn't actually say, and nothing quoted in the article suggests that he was talking about recent irish weather.

if you'd cared to actually find the article the chap in question wrote, he's referring to events almost all outside ireland.

https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2021/0726/1237408-climate-change/

i dunno, maybe the indo journalist got it wrong and they've since amended the article. but maybe you shouldn't believe everything you read in the indo if so.

Potential-Monke

There's no way a reporter, a pillar of the community, would misquote something. Could never happen. Bastion of honor and truth, them reporters.

HerrKapitan

Imagine the amount of calls of complaint they received for them to backtrack like this.

These lefties are militant.

Are they going to include heavy rain in July as climate change also? Code red cloud cover perhaps.

smillingsam

surprise surprise, a few hot days, in the summer mind you and its down to climate change, we really are starved of the sun in this country if we think like that after a run of a few days with it.

magicbastarder

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117666553#Comment_117666553

he didn't say that.

riffmongous

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117666499#Comment_117666499

So..this thread is literally Fake News then?

Quote from the article:

"Following criticism over the lack of coverage on the climate crisis as Ireland basked in a rare heatwave where temperatures reached 30C, Jon Williams took to Twitter this evening to apologise."

magicbastarder

that's a meaningless statement; it possibly implies - but does not state - a causal link between ireland's heatwave and his statement, but says nothing about his actual statement. you cannot blame him for whatever lazy phrasing the journalist used.

i'd say here it's the indo which you should be criticising, rather than him, assuming you copied the original headline verbatim into the thread title.

if you yourself changed it, the fault is yours. you must have wilfully read into it what you wanted to read into ti.

Mate, I put the title on the thread. I know boards is dying a fast death for various reasons, some due to overly fussy moderators, but I wasn't aware that a thread referring to a news article in After Hours had to have the same headline as the linked article.

Scotty #

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117666275#Comment_117666275

Did you even read the article he posted? Clearly not. He explicitly references the recent extreme weather events in Canada, the US, and Germany. Where did you get the notion this has anything to do with Ireland's recent warm spell? Virtue signalling indeed! 🙄

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117667720#Comment_117667720

Did you even read the article quoted in the op??

murpho999

No doubt in my mind that climate change is a real thing and only idiots and oil barons will deny it.

However, we have always had and will always have weather.

Ireland’s highest ever recorded temperature was back in 1887 long before Global warming was an issue.

The recent heatwave only lasted about 10 days, and we’ve had longer warm summers in 2013, 2006. 1995 and 1976 which were wall to wall sunshine for a few months. All to do with weather not climate change.