Scientist’s Heat Wave Warning Dismissed By News Reporter Just Like “Don’t Look Up” Movie
The GB News reporter called the meteorologist ‘fatalistic’ and a ‘harbinger of doom’.
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The UK is experiencing a record heat wave with extremes of up to 40°C, but even then there are people who are dismissing the event as ‘a bit of warm weather’.
A clip that has gone viral on Twitter shows a shocking example of how scientists’ warnings are routinely dismissed by media. The video shows a short clip from the movie Don’t Look Up and its shocking similarities to a real clip of a news report where a UK meteorologist’s discussions about extreme weather is dismissed.
Don’t Look Up features Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence who realize that a comet will destroy Earth. In the movie, they bring their findings to the government, media, and the public, only to be dismissed and ridiculed. [Spoiler alert!] At the end of the movie, everybody dies.
A clip from Don’t Look Up, and then a real TV interview that just happened pic.twitter.com/CokQ5eb3sO
— Ben Phillips (@benphillips76) July 20, 2022
When the movie was released, it was meant to be a satirical comedy, yet the 2021 movie turned out to be a foretelling instead.
In the real news report, similar dismissive language was used by the news reporter towards British meteorologist John Hammond, who was issuing warnings regarding the heat wave, saying that there ‘could be hundreds, if not thousands of excess deaths’.
He then warns viewers that the ‘nice weather’ will be turning into ‘lethal weather’.
GB News anchor Bev Turner’s response was to note what a nice day it was and that she wanted people ‘to be happy about the weather’.
I don’t know whether something’s happened to meteorologists to make you all a bit fatalistic and harbingers of doom.
News anchor Bev Turner
Naturally, this has made a lot of people very angry. Many are saying that years of downplaying scientists’ warnings have led to the general disregard towards climate change, including climate change denial.
It’s not sudden. They’ve been telling us for several decades that as we nearer the ‘event-horizon’ or point of no return, that these events will increase in intensity and frequency. The entire ecosystem from oceanic currents to glacial melt, decimated rain forests & drought.
— OrganicDemocracy🌊 A Republic💔If We Can Keep It (@Madison_Native) July 20, 2022
ppl made fun of “don’t look up” and all i saw was a slightly exaggerated depiction of what our media and government are actually like
— janet snakehole (@themeowsterz) July 20, 2022
The human behavior aspect of “Don’t Look Up” is documentary-level reality
— Alex Skolnick 🇺🇦 (@AlexSkolnick) July 20, 2022
Climate change is happening all over the world, including Malaysia. Extreme weather such as extremely hot and humid days paired with extremely strong storms that cause flash floods and destruction are becoming more and more common at a rate that isn’t normal.
READ MORE: Malaysia Can Expect To Face Stronger Storms, Climate Change Experts Say
Whether we like it or not, climate change is no longer a phenomenon that will happen in the near future, because we’re already living through it right now.
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