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

27-07-2021 12:57am #1

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 · 27-07-2021 1:00am

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

Ultimate Gowlbag · 27-07-2021 1:00am

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 · 27-07-2021 1:09am

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

27-07-2021 1:12am

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 · 27-07-2021 1:16am

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 · 27-07-2021 1:19am

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

Pathethic

27-07-2021 1:21am

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 · 27-07-2021 1:28am

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 · 27-07-2021 1:33am

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 · 27-07-2021 1:41am

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 · 27-07-2021 2:24am

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 · 27-07-2021 2:44am

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 · 27-07-2021 5:53am

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 · 27-07-2021 6:10am

Absolutely ridiculous

Curious_Case · 27-07-2021 7:01am

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 · 27-07-2021 7:05am

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

olestoepoke · 27-07-2021 7:15am

RTE virtue signalling again, shock horror.

Purgative · 27-07-2021 7:24am

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

magicbastarder · 27-07-2021 7:31am

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 · 27-07-2021 7:38am

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 · 27-07-2021 7:53am

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 · 27-07-2021 7:59am

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 · 27-07-2021 8:02am

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

he didn't say that.

riffmongous · 27-07-2021 11:46am

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

So..this thread is literally Fake News then?

27-07-2021 11:50am

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 · 27-07-2021 11:58am

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.

27-07-2021 12:01pm

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 # · 27-07-2021 12:02pm

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! 🙄

27-07-2021 12:03pm

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

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

murpho999 · 27-07-2021 12:20pm

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.

magicbastarder · 27-07-2021 12:26pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117667722#Comment_117667722

my my, the ironing. you deliberately misquoted the article. you attacked the chap for something he clearly didn't say, and aren't willing to admit that a) you were wrong, or b) that the article you quoted was possibly misleading.

as is now clear what he said, you could change the thread title to something that's not wilfully inaccurate?

27-07-2021 12:45pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117667872#Comment_117667872

Oh grow up, the thread title is an After Hours thread title, slightly tongue in cheek, sorry if it upsets you.

I linked directly to the article in the very first post and accurately quoted it verbatim in later posts.

Go and find something else to be offended by.

faceman · 27-07-2021 1:00pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117667842#Comment_117667842

Im having trouble reconciling this. If climate change is real and is evidenced by recent weather extremeness in other countries, and climate change and weather are intrinsically linked, then how can it be said with confidence that climate change had no impact on Ireland's recent heatwave?

Not being smart. It sounds like many posts are suggesting that even if climate change is linked, Ireland is somehow exempt from the effects of climate change.

buried · 27-07-2021 1:02pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117667872#Comment_117667872

But he did say it, he clearly states that "Irelands heatwave" was within a series of "unusual weather events" and that "people often want to know if climate change is to blame".

magicbastarder · 27-07-2021 1:16pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117668059#Comment_117668059

i don't think anyone is stating that on its own, a single weather event is evidence in and of itself. it's patterns or clusters which can start to form evidence.

AllGunsBlazing · 27-07-2021 1:48pm

RTE are simply filling the void of daily misery and depression that was left after the church finally had their necks wound in.

murpho999 · 27-07-2021 2:21pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117668059#Comment_117668059

If Ireland was to start having prolonged heatwaves year in year out then you can see patterns of weather that go against the previous norms and therefore deduce that climate change is a factor. Warm weather is simply a part of weather. Our weather last week was not extreme or unprecedented but getting it all the time (as in every summer) would be.

DarkJager21 · 27-07-2021 2:27pm

If climate change wants to give us a couple of months instead of a couple of days of that weather yearly, long may it continue.

Scotty # · 27-07-2021 3:46pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117667970#Comment_117667970

Slightly tongue in cheek....? It's complete bullshit!

27-07-2021 4:16pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117668151#Comment_117668151

Why don't you come back to us when there is actually evidence. Until then you are pushing an agenda without any supporting evidence.

Feisar · 27-07-2021 4:24pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117666483#Comment_117666483

But who the hell are they virtue signalling to???

Heraclius · 27-07-2021 4:27pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117669234#Comment_117669234

What evidence will you accept?

The Oort Cloud · 27-07-2021 4:28pm

Nobody is denying that climate change exists, it's being changing since the dawn of the earths existence. The way it is now with rte is that everything is bad, dying, or dead. I have an itch on my arse, oh, it must be climate change. All news channels regurgitate the same crap day in day out. Human beings are devolving.

27-07-2021 5:56pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117669069#Comment_117669069

No its not. In both articles the recent heatwave in Ireland is referred to as a possible example of climate change.

Can you tell me what exactly it is this man is apologising for?

27-07-2021 7:33pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117669278#Comment_117669278

Extensively Peer reviewed. You know, the sort of stuff sensible people use to draw sound conclusions.

27-07-2021 7:53pm

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

So, you ask where I got the notion he lumps Ireland's recent warm spell with extreme weather events in Canada, the US and Germany? How about this sentence from his article:

'In recent weeks, we've seen a series of unusual weather events, from record hot temperatures in Canada and the northwest United States, to deadly floods in Germany and Ireland's heatwave. When extreme weather occurs, people often want to know if climate change is to blame.

Funny how you missed that, Scotty.

Manach · 27-07-2021 7:56pm

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

Can confirm. Back then though it was global cooling. That we were heading into a new ice age and any cold weather was due to this. The MSM just played the reverse card.

magicbastarder · 27-07-2021 8:01pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117669278#Comment_117669278

i don't think there's any point in asking that question. and the funny thing is, assuming climate change is real, by the time these people finally accept the evidence is sufficient, it'll be decades too late to do anything about it.

27-07-2021 8:05pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117670248#Comment_117670248

Following your reasoning then you are fine with RTE and media attributing EVERYTHING to Climate Change because, ya know, by the time your strongly held beliefs may be proven correct it'll all be too late.

Deeper Blue · 27-07-2021 8:09pm

Any chance we could get an apology for their disgraceful coverage of the pandemic too?

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

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