Be joyful concerning the climate: Anchor’s comment on UK warmth wave is straight out of ‘Don’t Look Up’ movie
Days earlier than the UK recorded its hottest ever temperature, a TV News anchor made gentle of a meteorologist’s warning of extra deaths as a result of unprecedented warmth wave sweeping the nation.
The video of the change went viral after a Twitter person identified how the GB News host’s responses in the course of the phase had been strikingly much like a fictional interview on director Adam McKay’s 2021 movie, Don’t Look Up.
For those that haven’t watched the satirical masterpiece, Don’t Look Up stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence as two scientists attempting to sound the alert a couple of meteor approaching the Earth with out a lot luck.
In one scene, the scientists seem on a information present to warn the world concerning the catastrophic ramifications of the approaching meteor, solely to be laughed off by the over-optimistic anchors.
And now life is imitating artwork, as exhibited within the GB News interview. The hosts requested British meteorologist John Hammond concerning the climate after the Met Office issued an amber alert six days earlier than the warmth wave. It was later upgraded to purple — warning of hazard to life from excessive warmth — three days later.
“This will not be nice weather, this could be potentially lethal weather in a couple of days,” Hammond says.
Anchor Bev Turner’s response was proper out of Don’t Look Up as she says, “I want us all to be happy about the weather. I don’t know what’s happened to meteorologists to make you all a bit fatalistic. Whenever I turn on the new, everyone’s talking about the weather and saying there’s going to be tons of fatalities. But haven’t we always had hot weather?”
A clip from Don’t Look Up, after which an actual TV interview that simply occurred pic.twitter.com/CokQ5eb3sO
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“Wasn’t the summer of ’76 as hot as this one?” She goes on to ask because the meteorologist shakes his head with a contact of exasperation, and replies with a agency ‘no’.
Hammond proceeds to clarify that the summer time of 1976 was a “freak event” however in recent times, the UK has witnessed report excessive temperatures on an rising frequency, and warmth waves are solely going to get extra extreme.
“Heatwaves are becoming more extreme… I don’t think we should be too lighthearted over the fact that many are going to die over the next week because of the heat,” he says.
Just as Hammond warned, the warmth wave broke data, making it Britain’s hottest-ever day with temperatures above 40 levels Celsius in some areas.
Although Don’t Look Up was about an impending apocalyptic occasion, it may also be interpreted as an efficient allegory for local weather change denial.
The Oscar-nominated movie is a nod to the warnings we’ve had over the influence of worldwide warming and rising sea ranges and the way folks, companies and world leaders willingly select to disregard or downplay them.
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