|
?:reviewBody
|
-
In 2014, weather reporter Évelyne Dhéliat of the TF1 television channel in France teamed up with the World Meteorological Organization to create a series of fictional weather reports imagining what the weather will be like in the summer of 2050. While these reports may have seemed far-fetched at first, a June 2019 heat wave across Europe showed that these temperatures are well within the realm of possibility. In July 2019, an image graphic that supposedly compared the fictional 2050 weather map with a recent weather map from the June 2019 heat wave started going viral on social media (note: 40 degrees Celsius is approximately 104 degrees Fahrenheit): One popular posting of this image comparison was accompanied by the caption, The top image is a fictitious weather report imagining what the weather would be like in 2050 for a 2014 French TV documentary about climate change. The bottom image is the real weather report from last week. This caption is largely accurate, with the exception of the relative temporal term last week. According to LCI television weather presenter Guillaume Woznica, the bottom portion of this image graphic dates from the end of June 2019: The original 2050 prediction video can be viewed below. The still included in the viral comparison can be seen around the 1:40 mark: In June 2019, the French magazine L'Obs created a video that showed these two weather reports side-by-side: This image comparison is frequently shared along with comments or concerns about global warming. While this comparison certainly relates to climate change, it may not be the best example. After all, this graphic merely compares two single points in time (one of which was a prediction, the other from an unusually hot time period), which is not enough to illustrate any type of long-term weather trends. However, climate scientists have found that heat waves will become more common due to climate change.
(en)
|
![[This page as RDF]](http://data.gesis.org/claimskg/static/rdf-icon.gif){kind=icon}