Deadly Africa heat caused by climate change, scientists say | BBC News

A deadly heatwave in West Africa and the Sahel was "impossible" without human-induced climate change, scientists say.
Temperatures soared above 48C in Mali last month with one hospital linking hundreds of deaths to the extreme heat.
In Bamako, the capital of Mali, the Gabriel Toure Hospital said it recorded 102 deaths in the first days of April.
Researchers say human activities like burning fossil fuels made temperatures up to 1.4C hotter than normal.
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[@brianbb0208]

It's painful how in Africa we suffer the most when we contribute the least to global warming

[@phoque121]

But didn't humanity originated in Africa? That means it's all their fault. That's where the culprit species is from

[@ART-kp9cn]

that's the injustice of climate change

[@user-qg5dp4tl8c]

What happens in the more mechanized parts of the world does not stay there, but I'm hoping for a 'Reckoning' in which the political will to transfer subsidies for fossil fuels to renewables occurs quickly. But so far conservative politicians keep countering such efforts. We push, they pull = 0 movement.

[@ScruffySandra]

You are still using leaded fuel in most parts of Africa

[@sirensynapse5603]

More people died in europe recently from a heat wave.

[@erincoco612]

As if the hottest places on earth that were already that....couldn't get worse. I'm in New England USA. Haven't had a pond or lake freeze over in over a decade. We used to go ice skating all the time. We had snow days from school....its snowed twice this year and melted within 2 days. You have to be an idiot not to see the changes.

[@Pink_143_6]

New England here too. Local pond had 1 day of freezing and ice skaters.

[@titteryenot4524]

Spot on. I’m in the UK. Scotland. Old enough to recall as a child every winter with lying snow for weeks on end. In last 25 years I can count about 2 such winters. In other words, even without the stats, those of us old enough to know, know, just anecdotally. This issue has been, like most issues, toxically politicised.👍

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

same in upper Midwest - record number of idiots going onto the ice that barely existed - then having to be rescued. DeNile is seriously dangerous!

[@titteryenot4524]

@@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 Pretty sure that ‘DeNile’ has _never_ frozen over! 🥶

[@towerofresonance4877]

I'm in the center of Maine. We're already seeing flies..in April. It has been more than a decade, but last 6 years just consistently getting uglier. I can feel it in the ground and in the air.. It's a very musty moldy feel to it if you will..just nasty. And a lot of northeastern winds versus our usual northwestern. Lots of dampness. The snow is already all melted. A few piles here abd there, but no more mountains of snow

[@directoraldo]

Heat Wave in Africa and Flooding in Oman and UAE... Strange times 😢

[@anuradhainamdar8967]

Was going to make the same comment, climate change is going affect India too, with Heat wave in the month of April and May and as predicted above normal Monsoon.

[@kennethnystrom593]

Not strange at all, infact its pretty good & normal climate atm. Or do you prefer starving like in the preindustrial age with its temperatures? And oh...look up "Dansgaard-Oeschger event" now that are rises in climate temperatures...+5-8C over 40 years....about each 1470th years.... +0.08C per decade....is nothing...

[@l-dogtheman1685]

Scientists have warned about those weather extremes due to climate change for 50 years. Now we are seeing the effects of our CO2 emissions, and it is only gonna get worse

[@FoodwaysDistribution]

it happen all the time, it;s normal.

[@questionreality6003]

flooding is because of humidity in the atmosphere caused by warmer oceans - the reading to take is not a certain region or country but global averages, re rising aridity (overall lack of rain) and crop failures globally, to gauge our declining lifesphere.

[@manilalgohil]

even Kenya we felt more heat during onset of cold climate

[@DaRkLoRd-rc5yu]

Is this the start of one of the first uninhabitable areas of the earth?

[@vice.nor.virtue]

have you not heard of the sahara desert? You can see it very obviously from space it's freaking massive

[@DaRkLoRd-rc5yu]

@@vice.nor.virtue very true, I guess the region this is talking about spreads out from there to the west. I think Sahara's temperature is an average of 30 celcius with a peak temperature of 58 celcius. And now the region west of that it's now going to about 48 degrees. Which is trending up towards the same temperatures.

[@MegaDeano1963]

Or even the south pole , you could try living there

[@DelusionalDoug]

Antarctica has no permanent human residents. Part of that is we are still in an ice age.

[@MegaDeano1963]

@@DelusionalDoug pointing out its already unhabitable

[@Flightmode911]

The heat in Togo is extremely hot. You even sweat while in the swimming pool

[@user-ci2fd8vc2f]

We evolved to survive under very specific conditions, and now we are changing those conditions. What, exactly, guarantees our continued survival?

[@user-dm6rn4kz3x]

Everything has its end.

[@pambp5978]

Adapt or end .. if it is an extinction event as many are warning, what survives will be very different from our experience currently.

[@noexcuses5524]

Yes all living creatures adapt but what will happened in the future that there will be chaotic events unfolding because of water shortage, foods prices will skyrocket, etc Mind u. Humans can survive without food for 28 days but humans can only survive without water for 5 days.obviously depending the height, built, health, etc

[@chidijackson3443]

The heat is too much

[@kennethnystrom593]

You prefer starving? Cause that is the result of preindustrial temperatures...

[@l-dogtheman1685]

​@@kennethnystrom593all the industrialized nations are in colder climates (north america, europe), while poorer countries are in hotter climates (africa). Even relatively cooler South Africa is richer than the Congo in central africa. Seems higher temperatures are damaging economies, and right now we are heating up the planet

[@kennethnystrom593]

@@l-dogtheman1685 Bold claim; got any science backing that up? Science as in actual science where the contribution mankind does + the potential natural causes are taken into account. Half measures only talking about mankind is NOT accepted as a source for your claims.

[@l-dogtheman1685]

@@kennethnystrom593 you mean the decades of research from top climate scientists proving that humans are causing the planet to heat up? There are literally thousands of peer-reviewed papers about the negative effects of man made climate change. And regarding potential natural causes: there are several papers checking every other aspect that could heat up the planet, and none of those explain the currently observed warming. Scientists checked the solar activity, vulcanoes, earth orbit, ozone, land cover, and many more. For most of those, the planet should be cooling down, and only human emissions explains the rapid heating we are experiencing. That's how we know humans are responsible and not natural processes

[@samanth.]

​@@kennethnystrom593who's starving??? When u hear about africa u think of starvation, y don't u focus on your race that comes to grape black kids in Africa

[@EdmundIZHigh]

In Singapore , south east Asia a 5 minute walk is like a 20 minute walk under the sun. More of the humidity that’s bad even in the night.

[@Encephalitisify]

Who are they kidding. These heatwaves are happening every year now.

[@bakgatfromgb]

This is due to deforestation and not fossil fuel

[@lrvogt1257]

Both but mostly fossil fuels. Almost 50 years ago today's temperatures were projected based on CO2 emissions.

[@classicrock2560]

In nepal many glacier are in verses of glacier lake outbrust due to extreme heat and less snowfall even the colder areas are in danger

[@manilalgohil]

Kenya is 70% green energy (thermal energy - steam in rift valley)

[@martincatoniryan1638]

kudos to Kenya! very good investment! according to the wikipedia article I checked Geothermal , Hydro and Wind energy are the biggest sources of energy in Kenya. I am amazed. Very good news I didn't expect. thx for mentioning this mr. manilalgohil! I hope other african countries (and all the other countries in the world) adopt more and more renewables!!

[@user-ds8rj2vc4v]

Because they power like 9 light bulbs. There's basically no infrastructure or industry.

[@samanth.]

​@@user-ds8rj2vc4vu sound bitter?? U dnt know anything about kenya, kenya isn't a shithole like your country buddy, kenya can fund your entire gdp twice, considering your race love graping black kids in Africa

[@blakechradini7235]

@@user-ds8rj2vc4vhave you been there to know the industry?

[@DelusionalDoug]

Mali record high temperature: Record High: 52°C (125°F) on April 1, 1999. And the records only seem to go back to 1991. 33 years is pretty short when trying to figure out historical data on temperature.

[@braxxian]

Indeed. When you hear all these hysterical claims about “record heat” keep in mind the data to back up these claims only goes back a few decades if that. People have no understanding of long term climate cycles anymore.

[@lrvogt1257]

Records for locale events can be almost anything. The important factor is the long-term trend of GLOBAL ANNUAL AVERAGE TEMPERATURE. -NASA: Vital Signs, Global Temperature -“MET Office UK, Causes of climate change” -"Columbia Climate School, How Exactly Does Carbon Dioxide Cause Global Warming?" -“MIT, How do greenhouse gases trap heat in the atmosphere?

[@DelusionalDoug]

@@lrvogt1257 I watched another video with a NASA climate scientist. There is only world wide temperature records going back about 40 years (1979). Places like the USA and England have records that go back to about 1850. The NASA scientist claimed they could reconstruct the global temperature back about 150 years. However, he didn’t explain any of the assumptions that analysis is based upon. I’ve been interested in long term climate for 50 years. I was fascinated by the ice age and megafauna extinction. Over that time, I’ve seen the climate history rewritten. Suddenly there was no Little Ice Age or Medieval Warm Period. I’ve read many studies that data supports global temperature changes; the media’s narrative is that it was just a regional thing. Graphs of historical temperatures from the 1990s are “updated” showing cooler temperatures prior to 1970. I don’t agree with the media rewriting cultural history and I really hate that they are rewriting climate history.

[@lrvogt1257]

@@DelusionalDoug NASA. vital sign global temperature Goes back to 1880. But proxies go back much much further and they are measure many ways.

[@lrvogt1257]

@@DelusionalDoug if information weren’t updated with better information it would be bad science. That is how it’s supposed to work. It’s called progress. Because you didn’t see the methodology doesn’t mean it wasn’t well done. If you care you can look it up. It’s available

[@user-qg5dp4tl8c]

He said later in that video temps have risen 1.2C (above pre-industrial), yet the past 12 months has been 1.58C, and 2023 was 1.48C, so why do they keep claiming 1.2C? They must expect it to go back down but with elevated ocean temperatures and not just in the eastern Pacific (El Nino) but all oceans how can they be so sure?

[@spikemansss]

I agree how do you cool the ocean? It's a new standard of heating. 1.5 doesn't seem far away maybe next 5 years.

[@mrmrmrmrmr02]

Geoengineering. Weather modification. Consequences. Do a little research

[@martincatoniryan1638]

geeeez, 48 degrees celsius!!!

[@user-uo7jx6gx2t]

well, in perth western australia we have not had rain for over six months, there were 3 weeks of intermittent 40+ degrees but overall over 36 in that period. now in the 2nd month of autumn we have had weeks of 30 and above.

[@braxxian]

Were you born yesterday?. Australia has always been a land of extremes. When we aren’t battling bushfire we’re battling droughts or floods. Stop being such a drama queen.

[@user-uo7jx6gx2t]

@@braxxian I was simply stating the facts. I fail to see how that can be interpretted as dramatic exaggeration. I'm 70 and can confidently state perth western australia has never experienced this weather. when people are unable to accept truths they are misguidedly ideologically opposed to they turn to name calling and insult.

[@redmundperrz7234]

As long the world is addicted to oil we will experience similar like these and more to come

[@TheGeorgeous]

Extreme weather events all over the world. Dubai flooded. India and Africa heatwaves. It will be the poor and least polluters that suffer the most damage. Rich nations, climate refugees coming right up

[@lrvogt1257]

Massive flooding in China, and vast fires in Canada and Russia.

[@drinkwatereverytime]

In North Central Nigeria around Mid March, my weather app said 38°! I was like WTF?! How? Why? It was depressing tbh.

[@stevo728822]

They don't mention the over grazing by goats and cattle.

[@tailsromero4512]

Steps to prevent global warming. 1. NO fire crackers specially in new years eve 2. NO black smokes in vehicles 3. NO burning of tires and wheels 4. NO burning of garbage. 5. Plant more trees.

[@jonsonjavier7465]

It's everywhere. Here in the Philippines the heat index can go as high as 45 degrees Celsius depending on your location in the country since March, and it is projected to get much hotter this May. Dry season before when I was in grade school, high school and college were not this hot.

[@noexcuses5524]

did you read in the near future somr part of countries near ocean like PH, cali, Vancouver, etc will submerged due to increase sea lvl..

[@user-ol6rd7pl5t]

40 years of warnings, when is someone going to wake up & do something about it.

[@LiamWhelan-nh8mi]

The cost of going green globally is estimated to be 9 trillion

[@user-ol6rd7pl5t]

@@LiamWhelan-nh8mi the cost of doing nothing is probably 10 times that or more.

[@dominic197733]

Don’t forget to get your booster!

[@user-ol6rd7pl5t]

@@dominic197733 Don't forget your medication for your paranoid delusions, you've obviously missed them again today.

[@barbarashaffer8486]

40 years? no hun. they have been saying this since the 1950s. they refuse to acknowledge how our distance from the sun changes and the suns radiation itself goes thru 11 yr cycles that effect us. they NEED climate change to happen at this point because they have been telling us it has been happening for generations. not just the last 40 yrs. al gore said we wouldnt have snow on this earth by 2010. and last year/previous year saw record snow in many areas. dont be a sheep in the herd. learn the cycles, and hear their narrative. it does not add up to a single thing that WE are doing, cause its always back and forth. earth changes her cycles. early humans migrated with the animal herds for a reason. they followed the weather. they didnt blame themselves for causing it.

[@heww3960]

0:25 1,5 degrees hotter than normal in the region? so about global average then? Am I missing something?

[@megwenger8756]

🙏 to those suffering these heatwaves, may we be able to come together to reduce the effects that our activities have had… we didn’t know then what we do know now (highly esteemed scientists worldwide)

[@kennethnystrom593]

and what should that be that we know now? "Mega". Cause it sure isnt that mankind is the driving force of the miniscule change in the climate. Here; Ill make it simple for you. Show me a one single scientific paper taking in account for mankinds contributions to/for the "climate" + the other possible natural causes that might be driving the observed changes to the climate and still point at mankind being the driving force. Here is a hint for you. There isnt one. Its all opinions, no science.. Now take a closer look at what a "Dansgaard-Oeschger event" is. Now that is something that happens each 1470th year as long there is ice on the planet. Thats a tiiiiiiiiny bit larger then 0.08C per decade...... Had you even heard about those?

[@prisca_qafui]

In Ghana, nowadays wen it rains its still hot...the weather is always hot these days...

[@lrvogt1257]

Warmer air causes more evaporation but the warm air holds more water vapor so wet-bulb temperatures rise.

[@rebeccahenderson7761]

They need wells all over to save wildlife!!!

[@zaimkazaimka582]

Somalia temp. Is 37⁰ or 40⁰

[@JohnSmith-fz1wh]

The BBC always lies about the temperature to push the climate lies.

[@RiyaadEvans]

Same in South Africa heat has not changed yet we going into winter All this is climate change And end of Times

[@SageRedowl-gt6kb]

In SO.NEVADA we have 117° days Now in july and August before max 109°!

[@emmanuel8310]

Oh poor climate change.... everything is blamed on thee.

[@RT_News-android_apk]

'Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.' - Albert Einstein ⚖

[@ForbiddenPlanetB]

"I'm Alright Jack" ============== The human condition means that most ordinary people won't change their habits of a lifetime until such time that their experiential circumstances change or are impacted for the worse. The trigger point for change is pain, and lots of it.

[@Tony-kq6py]

By volume, the dry air in Earth's atmosphere is about 78.08 percent nitrogen, 20.95 percent oxygen, and 0.93 percent argon, adding up to 99.96 percent. A brew of trace gases accounts for the other approximately 0.04 percent, including the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and ozone. To think that a small increase (200 parts per million in the last hundred years) of carbon dioxide would affect the weather is absurd.

[@wm2357]

Using facts, logic, common sense? You must be a conspiracy theorist. Be a good sheep and bend over to our new religion.

[@lrvogt1257]

Clearly you have no idea about the science and never bothered to learn. Or your just being disingenuous. You know what that trace of CO2 does? It nourishes ALL plant-life on Earth and regulates it's temperature. At 280 ppm it raises Earth;s temperature from 0ºf to about 57ºf. This has been understood for over a century. -“MET Office UK, Causes of climate change” -"Columbia Climate School, How Exactly Does Carbon Dioxide Cause Global Warming?" -“MIT, How do greenhouse gases trap heat in the atmosphere? -NASA: Vital Signs, Global Temperature -NASA: Watching the Land Temperature Bell Curve Heat Up (this. shows how a small increase in average produces a large number of extremely hot days) -KZbin Sabine Hossenfelder, I Misunderstood the Greenhouse Effect. Here's How It Works.

[@robbienl8176]

Complete nonsence, glad most people not buying it anymor.

[@lrvogt1257]

Less than 15% of Americans are extremist climate deniers. The majority wants stronger action on climate.

[@TheYear2050willbfun]

Ty

[@coondog7934]

I'm so glad to be born in Europe. Wouldn't want to face droughts, famine, excessive thirst, etc.

[@lrvogt1257]

Europe is warming at an exceptional rate and facing heat, drought, fires, and floods as climate change produces more extreme weather.

[@JohnSmall314]

"Wouldn't want to face droughts, famine, excessive thirst, etc." You will. Already farmers in southern Europe are finding that summers are too hot for their crops. That's why the price of olive oil has more than doubled, the yields are down due to the heat.

[@coondog7934]

@@lrvogt1257 True but with the difference that Europe got plenty of funds to counter most of the effects. They just throw money at the different problems, a luxury most African countries don't have. And if it becomes unbearable at one point, just leave the country, go someplace cooler. Yet again, something not easily done down there. EDIT @John: I'm not a farmer and I can live without olives/olive oil. If prices go up, I buy less, it is that simple. Nothing to really worry about.

[@lrvogt1257]

@@coondog7934 : Climate migration will create major social and politic stress and chaos all over the globe. No one will escape the problem.

[@Poultrymad]

@@lrvogt1257 Extreme weather events are reducing, not increasing.

[@d1j16]

are the wealthy being harmed or made less wealthy by these events? If not, there's no need to be concerned. -- corporations.

[@braxxian]

50 years ago when I was a boy growing up I remember the ads on the TV asking for money to save the poor starving African kids because if heatwaves and drought. Some of us have memories longer than 5 minutes MSM. Go away.

[@lrvogt1257]

Drought happens normally. Extremes are getting worse. WMO Reports extremes have increase 5-fold in the last 50 years. NASA: Water Cycle Extremes: Droughts and Pluvials In a study of 20 years of data from the NASA/German GRACE and GRACE-FO satellites, two NASA scientists confirmed that major droughts and pluvials - periods of excessive precipitation and water storage on the landscape - have been occurring more often. They also found that the worldwide intensity of these extreme wet and dry events - a metric that combines extent, duration, and severity - is closely linked to global warming. Reuters: Explainer: How is climate change driving dangerous 'wet-bulb' temperatures? High wet-bulb temperatures are dangerous because humans lose around 80% of heat through sweating, so when both humidity and air temperature are high it becomes harder to shed excess heat.

[@EricShaun321]

ngl the thumbnail looks like 3 aliens 👽👽👽

[@superman31172]

WOW

[@mattseaman5662]

Was stupidly hot here in seville, Spain, around that time, too

[@concernedcitizen7385]

What temperature did it reach?

[@mattseaman5662]

@concernedcitizen7385 I've lived here for 15 years, and it's called 'El horno de España ' (the oven of Spain) so it's always hot...but it has been way hotter than usual, for this time of year. Sevilla is famous for it's orange trees and 'azahar' (orange blossom) came 1.5 months earlier this year

[@concernedcitizen7385]

@@mattseaman5662 Yes, I know what it’s called. I also happen to have long connections with Seville. The question was: what temperature did it get up to?

[@catherinestanley5885]

It’s devastating for those poor people. It won’t stop yet, alas until we humans wake up to environmental changes!!!!

[@shalinderjaiswal9030]

Very harmful effects 😢

[@user-wq6sz7vt3w]

The will of Allah

[@ronlacker326]

How about just "deadly African"

[@zzz22214]

Just like the 60s but it was even worse in the 40s..

[@lrvogt1257]

Not even close. climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/?intent=121

[@DelusionalDoug]

About the 2nd millennium BCE. Genesis 12:10 Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.

[@lrvogt1257]

As the global atmosphere becomes warmer, evaporation increases so droughts and fires get worse faster. The warmer air holds 7% more water vapor for every 1ºc increase. It's now pushing 1.5ºc. This means where and when it does rain, it rains more. So, deluge and floods get worse. -NASA: Water Cycle Extremes: Droughts and Pluvials In a study of 20 years of data from the NASA/German GRACE and GRACE-FO satellites, two NASA scientists confirmed that major droughts and pluvials - periods of excessive precipitation and water storage on the landscape - have been occurring more often. They also found that the worldwide intensity of these extreme wet and dry events - a metric that combines extent, duration, and severity - is closely linked to global warming. -Reuters: Explainer: How is climate change driving dangerous 'wet-bulb' temperatures? High wet-bulb temperatures are dangerous because humans lose around 80% of heat through sweating, so when both humidity and air temperature are high it becomes harder to shed excess heat.

[@marttull5979]

B.s 😂

[@giman3752]

Nonsense

[@lrvogt1257]

-“MET Office UK, Causes of climate change” -"Columbia Climate School, How Exactly Does Carbon Dioxide Cause Global Warming?" -“MIT, How do greenhouse gases trap heat in the atmosphere?

[@lrvogt1257]

You clearly have chosen to remain ignorant.

[@1611_KJV]

Rom 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; Psalms 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. Acts 8:37 And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Rom 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Corinthians 15:3-4 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.😮

[@concernedcitizen7385]

Back to this old chestnut 🤡

[@hamidoudiallo9809]

end times😢😢😢

[@JamesSmith-qs4hx]

Within the last 5000 years, there have been three warming periods (referred to as optimums, not crises), Minoan, Roman and Medieval. The Minoan was the warmest, followed by the Roman and then Medieval. All three were warmer than today, looking at the overall trend appears to indicate a cooling. When the IPCC produced its first Assessment Report, they used the chart showing those warm periods. They quickly realised that it didn't support their global warming narrative, so switched to using the crooked hockey stick from Michael Mann. You see, the grift works best when we are not reminded of the evidence or past events.

[@JohnSmith-fz1wh]

They want to start climate lockdowns soon.

[@erincoco612]

Jfc. Scientists all over the world aren't lying to you.

[@shannondevoy1614]

Agree.

[@ReveredWizardBob]

Yes, people all over the world get paid to tell you something completely fabricated for no reason at all. They've said that the earth goes through heating and cooling periods, but global warming is accelerating that phenomenon, which wouldn't let animals or plants adapt to the changes and would ultimately lead to mass extinction, sure it's not going to be in your life time, but for people hundred of years down the line it won't spell anything good.

[@vandibox]

Ah yes, James Smith lays out his undisputable theory in the KZbin comments. You've cracked the case James! 99% of scientists can eat their hat!

[@95700272]

Heat + Ramadan = death

[@SputniK_apk_phoneapp]

The future looks bright 💥 Mushroom cloud bright ⚛💀

[@211inprogress]

🎶The Heat is On..🎶

[@tarnikawilcher]

Unfortunately 😢

[@kennethnystrom593]

@@tarnikawilcher Are you aware of the consequences of what preindustrial temperatures does for mankind? S.t.a.r.v.a.t.i.o.n. You should refrase that input of yours.

[@tarnikawilcher]

@@kennethnystrom593 I stand by what I said

[@kennethnystrom593]

@@tarnikawilcher Yeah good luck with that; hope you dont starve to death one day.

[@trull122]

Or its the El Nino that has done this to Planet Earth for ten thousand years, the written version of this story even says that.

[@ReveredWizardBob]

yes, but as he said later on if temperature keep climbing to won't be one every 200 years but every 20.

[@Niko257x]

I'm pretty sure climate scientists know what El Niño is and have already considered this in their report. Maybe they don't know about GCSE-level geography, though.

[@kennethnystrom593]

@@Niko257x Fun fact; the "scientists" havent taken into account the potential natural causes... (there isnt a single paper out there showing mankind is the drivng force behind the observed climate change when taking into account the "other" potential natural causes out there...not a single one.)

[@AllyFin]

Nuclear nuclear nuclear.

[@polygonalmasonary]

‘The tip of the iceberg’, no!! That melted 😂🤣🤣🤣🇬🇧

[@kennethnystrom593]

Dansgaard-Oeschger event Nuff said.

[@paulmcgorian5712]

Its hot in Africa always has been . Nothing new here .

[@JohnSmall314]

The new thing is that it's hotter than it's been at any time since the Pliocene 5 million years ago.

[@braxxian]

Rubbish. What evidence do you have to back up that ridiculous claim, a few decades of temp records?

[@paulmcgorian5712]

@@JohnSmall314 prove it

[@PulaskiSkater71]

There only way to fix it is to pay more taxes.

[@kennethnystrom593]

fix whats good for mankind? I say keep it and enjoy the food that comes out of it.

[@Anvil.]

😂😂😂 Its rained for two months here in wales. All a load of rubbish.

[@lrvogt1257]

Rain in Wales and heat in Africa have global warming in common. As the air warms 1ºc it holds 7% more water and it's up almost 1.5ºc. So the excess heat increases evaporation so droughts get worse and with more water in the air, when and where it rains it rains more so there is more flooding. It's a lose-lose situation.

[@JohnSmall314]

It's night here in England, global warming must be fake.

[@braxxian]

It’s the MSM being hysteria, again. What a shock.

[@lrvogt1257]

@@braxxian -“MET Office UK, Causes of climate change” -"Columbia Climate School, How Exactly Does Carbon Dioxide Cause Global Warming?" -“MIT, How do greenhouse gases trap heat in the atmosphere? -NASA: Vital Signs, Global Temperature -NASA: Watching the Land Temperature Bell Curve Heat Up (this. shows how a small increase in average produces a large number of extremely hot days) -KZbin Sabine Hossenfelder, I Misunderstood the Greenhouse Effect. Here's How It Works.

[@ridleyclayburn4599]

'What a lot of weather we've been having lately' Neil Innes

[@chrishumphries1869]

If bbc say it must be true

[@ossianx8752]

And the solution is to make poorer UK families and vulnerable peoples energy and fuel more expensive apparently ..... disgusting ,...

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

No. The solution is to subsidize clean energies same as fossil fuel have been subsidized for decades so everybody in the world can live and thrive. There is no a dilemma here; clean energies are becoming cheaper and cheaper every year. Isn't intrinsically cheaper to obtain your energy from solar panels than from a company you have to pay to? That thing that clean energies are always more expensive is propaganda from oil companies, which don't want to lose their profits. Finally, how good is for poor families everywhere to live in places where heat waves, droughts, floods, wildfires, storms, make impossible to live? There have been heat waves in England. You bet poor people have not air conditioning.

[@ossianx8752]

@@MariaMartinez-researcher Why are you telling me about your Utopia when the actual truth is that people and millions like me cant afford to heat our homes or drive our cars ? This is actually happening NOW not you fancy impractical 'solutions' in dozens of years time when we will be too broke to afford anything .... So far we have invested $trillions and there has been no results .... what does that tell you about the effectiveness of the proposed solutions? I know what it tells me ..... they're garbage.😀

[@ossianx8752]

@@MariaMartinez-researcher yes, all very good and well but we are getting our incomes destroyed now. We can’t afford to heat our houses now. The utopian solutions which you speak of are why we can’t afford energy and fuel now and before we reach that utopian outcome, and that is a very big if, we’ll all be broke … the problem is the poor and the vulnerable are funding this and that is happening right now. It is a massive wealth transfer from the poor to the rich and so far there is no discernible difference to ‘climate’ after £trillions spent globally. Firstly that doesn’t say much for the ‘solutions’ and secondly the money we have spent in the UK could have bought nearly every household an electric car but noooo the cash goes to a few very wealthy eco bosses and all we get is bigger bills …..

[@88CBAUGH]

Heat in Africa? Who knew??

[@concernedcitizen7385]

‘scientists’ say 😂

[@braxxian]

If their is no climate crisis there goes all that juicy funding.😉

[@concernedcitizen7385]

@@braxxian Yep

[@lc1777]

​@@braxxianand the oil companies aren't using their juicy blood money to make you a complete fool ?

[@RT-News_android_app]

Africa is hot 🥵 Water is wet 🤽🏿 BBC news 🤥

[@Acolis]

water actually isnt wet. when something is wet, it means that a liquid has covered its surface. water isnt wet because it doesnt have a surface that gets coated and covered in a liquid. when you add water to water it just makes a bigger volume. water is not wet. you can wet things with water, but water itself is not wet

[@ade008]

@@Acolis Er... Making such comment on a video post comments page that's likely to be full of science-types? Do you really want to get into this?🤔

[@Acolis]

@@ade008 yeah, i do. i said what i said and im not wrong.

[@ade008]

@@Acolis 1. For ANY material, solid, liquid or gas, our eyes are designed only to "detect" the surfaces from which light is reflected into them.

[@Acolis]

@@ade008 ok, not relevant to the conversation at hand tho.

[@snowrose101]

It's the end of the ice age, time to move away from the equator. Our ancestors were smart enough to move when the weather changed. We need to be just as smart.

[@public.public]

The last time global temp rose 5 degrees C it took 80,000 years.... WE are getting there much faster. So NO you are completely wrong it is not just the end of the ice age. Africa is in the middle of a 20,000 year cycle of being dry and then wet and fertile so it should now be just starting to become a more fertile continent again. It isn't.

[@kennethnystrom593]

@@public.public WRONG! Stop spewing lies; Look up; "Dansgaard-Oeschger event" that happens each 1470th yearish as long there are ice on the planet.

[@DelusionalDoug]

@@public.public You obviously haven’t heard of the Younger-Dryas, when temperatures changed 10 degrees in about a century. Google it.

[@JamesSmith-qs4hx]

Pull the other one - it's got bells on. 🔔

[@titteryenot4524]

Is that a euphemism, Jimbo? 🙄😉

[@JamesSmith-qs4hx]

@@titteryenot4524 OOOOOOHHH ERRRRRRRRR MISSSUS

[@titteryenot4524]

@@JamesSmith-qs4hx No, Jimbo, I have no desire to be ‘homogeneous’ with you, son. No desire, IIIIIIIIIIIIIII SSSSSSSAAAAAAAAAYYYYY!!!

[@JamesSmith-qs4hx]

@@titteryenot4524 IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

[@lrvogt1257]

-“MET Office UK, Causes of climate change” -"Columbia Climate School, How Exactly Does Carbon Dioxide Cause Global Warming?" -“MIT, How do greenhouse gases trap heat in the atmosphere? -NASA: Vital Signs, Global Temperature -NASA: Watching the Land Temperature Bell Curve Heat Up (this. shows how a small increase in average produces a large number of extremely hot days) -KZbin Sabine Hossenfelder, I Misunderstood the Greenhouse Effect. Here's How It Works.

[@davidcamelot4908]

Re climate , carbon and taxes Live by the carbon, die by the carbon Consumers aren’t totally to blame for the climate and ocean mess, if there are no or few affordable greener options , than for them to be media brainwashed to buy and live on the goods and services of corporate carbon. To say then, the onus to change is and must be on consumers alone , without changing the carbon sources, pushers and pimps , they are enslaved and addicted to , is to disregard that they are mostly simple , passive , subsistent pawns and minnows, struggling from pay check to pay check, in and of the bigger industry and capitalist wealth, forces and system. The carbon tax, burden or penalty and onus to change , should more fairly thus, be placed on the bond and shareholders of such companies who in fact profit daily $$$ (criminally?) by their destruction of the planet, oceans and climate. The recent high court ruling putting on govs the failure on climate , thus should add the many govs hidden masters , the immortal , free enterprise and market corporate inc. capitalists ceos , boards and shareholders Tax the axe not the tax . A global citizen

[@polygonalmasonary]

48 degrees and 1.5 degrees above normal! So 46.5 degrees would be pre industrial temperatures and normal 🤔🙄🙄🙄🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@altaruss2838]

1.5 degrees being the global average, that stacks up a lot in certain regions compared to others

[@mikespurg8006]

There has been a warming trend since the end of the last ice age, 10,000 years ago. Storm tracks shift. But, it is STILL -20 to -30 degrees below zero in Svalbard. Move there for a year and check out their snow and temperatures.

[@kennethnystrom593]

its been the same ongoing warming trend for the last 22.000 years.... It never stopped. it just have been stagnant for the last 8000 years with an overall cooling but seen in the larger perspective its still in the same "uptick" in the climate the reoccour each 100.000ish years..

[@MegaDeano1963]

Once in 200 year event ? 30 secs on the Internet shows that's wrong

[@ReveredWizardBob]

The BootyBots in the comments have more common sense than the people denying what's going on

[@Acolis]

48c? laughs in phoenix arizona

[@jamesmcmurray6871]

You mean God stop blaming ya BS climate change

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

Do you remember the Garden of Eden, the Fall, the introduction of Death because of Sin? Why is so hard to accept that Man's greed has the capacity to pollute God's creation?

[@francescoscarinci7109]

Foxils and deforestation, not difficult to understand and remember!

[@DR_1_1]

More people, more deforestation, that's the only truth. More people means more cities, more heating and AC, more cars, ie more emissions and more deforestation! We are past 8 billion now!!! World population is rising as fast as ever! Lower birth rates apply to a much larger population so the annual increment is still the same! Demographics are the root cause, people don't cut trees for fun, but to convert the land to agriculture, build new housings, because more people need more resources than fewer. The fact that we burn oil instead of wood and whale oil, is only a trailing effect of demographics.

[@kennethnystrom593]

@@DR_1_1 No. You are dead wrong. You are talking about pollution not the climate... The climate behaves basicly super calm with miniscule changes of +0.08C per decade thats almost nothing.... Look up "Dansgaard-Oeschger event" now that is change to the climate....over 40 years....each 1470th year for as long there is ice on the planet... This whats happening now...Nothing...

[@user-nx8ii4ef7f]

The BBC is addicted to climate change dramas, needs to be more responsible, not tabloid!!

[@captainjoejoe]

Hot? In Africa? Who would have thought it??

[@runnerfromjupiter]

2047 here we go

[@paulgibbons2320]

Africa always a hot country. This is consistency not change.

[@shinofication]

You are consistently a whackjob

[@public.public]

Africa's desert region has a 20,000 year cycle of fertility... It should now be just starting to get better. It isn't.

[@user-ow8gh5hc1e]

Africa is a continent, ffs you brainlet.

[@kasasagi-kun]

이제 인간은 다 죽겠구나

[@288theabe]

Human breeding is the problem 🤦‍♂️

[@DR_1_1]

For some reason the media won't mention this simple truth... World's population is rising as fast as ever, birth rates slowly decreasing, but applying the much higher numbers (+8.2 billion as we speak?) the annual increment is just as huge as it was 40 years ago!

[@theodorabruin4601]

Give it a rest already about climate change. It's nothing unusual...it happens every day. The world has had ice ages, heat waves, floods...how do you think rock formations were formed, like the Grand Canyon? We've had fires, rains and droughts and we'll have them again. That's life and we just have to make the best of it. It'll happen no matter what we do.

[@EliteMMAv2]

They are much more severe now though

[@gtingaming716]

Take it up with China

[@delroyvast6800]

Please link it with growing number of satellite going up in space. Do the study!!

[@PulseNews-gu9fe]

If we start with the great mysteries of mankind, then a number of questions arise about the true truth of human origin. Two of them are as follows.

[@user-mn4hr4nr5c]

ااناااااااا اختكم من اليمن والله ماتكلمت الا من جوع ومن ضيق الحال انا وامي واخوتي باالعبرات والدموع نحن في حاله لايعلم بها الا الله حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل في من اوصلنا الى هاذا الحال 💔💔وًّالَلَهَ الَعَظَيَمَ مَا كتَبَتَ هَذا الَمَنَاشَدَهَ غَيَرَ مَنَ الَضَيَقَ وّالَفَقَر يَاعَالَمَ حَسَوّا فَيَنَا ارَجَوّكمَ وّالَلَهَ الَعَظَيَمَ رَبَ الَعَرَشَ الَعَظَيَمَ انَه الَاكلَ مَا فَيَ عَنَدَيَ بَالَبَيَتَ وًّالَلَهَ يَا اخَوّانَيَ انَهَ اخَوًّنَيَ بَقَعَدَوًّ بَالَيَوًّمَيَنَ مَافَى اكلَ وًّالَلَهَ وًّضَعَنَا كثَيَرَ صَعَبَ نَحَنَ 4 نَفَرَ دَاخَلَ الَبَيَتَ وًّابَيَ مَتَوًّفَيَ وًّلَا يَوًّجَدَ مَنَ يَعَوًّلَ عَلَيَنَا وًّسَاكنَيَنَ فَيَ بَيَتَ اجَارَ لَانَسَتَطَيَعَ دَفَعَ الَاجَارَ الَلَيَ بَاقَيَ عَلَيَنَا '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''"'""""''"'"""'""'"'''""""''''''''""""''""""'''""'""''""'""''''''''''''' اخي اول كلامي انا اقسم بالله على كتاب الله اني لااكذب عليك ولا انصب ولا احتال اني بنت يمنيه نازحين انا واسرتي بيننا ایت الشهرب 15 الف يمني والان علينا 60 الف حق 4 شهور وصاحب البيت من الناس الي ماترحم والله يا اخي انه يجي كل يوم يبهدلنا ويتكلم علينا ويريد من البيت للشارع لانناماقدرنا ندفعله الأجار شافونا الجيران نبكي ورجعو تكلمو الجيران ومهلنالاخره الأسبوع معادفعنا له حلف يمين بالله هذا بيخرجنا إلى الشارع رحمه واحنا. بلادنا بسبب هذا الحرب ولانجد قوت يومنا وعايشين اناوامي واخوتي سفار والدنا متوفي الله يرحمه ومامعنا أحد في هذا الدنيا جاانبنا في هذه الظروف القاسيه اخوتي الصغار خرجو للشارع وشافو الجيران ياكلو واوقفو عند بابهم لجل يعطوهم ولو كسره خبز والله الذي له ملك السموات والارض انهم غلفو الباب وطردوهم ورجعو یبکو ایموتو من الجوع ما احد رحمهم وعطلة ردها لقمت عیش والان لوما احدنا ساعدنا في إيكيلو دقيق اقسم بالله انموت من الجوع فيا اخي انا دخيله على الله ثم عليك واريد منك المساعده لوجه الله انشدك بالله تحب الخير واتساعدني تراسلي واتساب على هذا الرقم 00967711029860 وتطلب اسم بطاقتي وترسلي ولاتتاخر وايعوضك الله بكل خير اخواني سغار شوف كيف حالتهم وساعدنا وأنقذنا قبل أن يطردونا في الشارع تتبهدل أو نموت من الجوع وانا واسرتي نسالك بالله لولك مقدره على مساعد لاتتاخر علينا وجزاك الله خير الجزا-🎉😢🎉😢😢🎉😢😢😢😢!؛:!!:«~~~!؟!؛؛:««~__»«!!:«"✓✓(؟؛«~~_"✓♡🎉😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@Cryaboutmyhandle]

The same ones who say dudes can be chicks? Or actual ones?

[@ReveredWizardBob]

you sound like a smart guy!

[@teresachantal6515]

🤣

[@user-rh4nr7zb8g]

有看過＜軍事無間道＞嗎？？果然是＜連座制＞有簽軍令狀所以要賭對被害人是蔣家軍事政變焚書坑儒

[@Amir-952]

IRAN did not attack residential areas, but attacked air bases, Israel's safest place,precisely when all of Israel's allies, the US, France, Britain, and Jordan,were protecting it.Iran is a superpower.

[@Anvil.]

Property this scientists playing with the weather

[@emdhruv]

these all incidents are just trailer .. no one will survive. Only those who can afford #musk moon space rocket ticket will survive.

[@Debbie-henri]

Musk won't survive either on the Moon or on Mars. We haven't even worked out how to deal with the radiation in space affecting astronauts yet, so long term habitation on another planet will be impossible.

[@frankcuoco1501]

Isn't every day a heat wave in Africa😅😅😅

[@ReveredWizardBob]

No that's the point of the word heatwave