I live in Greece. The past couple of weeks have been really hot. Today we have a significant drop in temperatures, at last.
Mr Oliver needs to get out more.
I think we need to get used to a new "life law" that has arisen as a fruit of echo chambers, too much information (regardless of its veracity) and modern recommendation algorithms: "For every important global event, there will be a small portion of deniers."
Besides education at early ages, I don't see a way this trend can be stopped. "Denying" will mutate across different topics (chem-trails, vaccines, the shape of the earth). I'm starting to perceive it like the flu, a seasonal disease with no permanent cure which we just take for granted. When you do your new years resolution/planning you should remember to subtract 2 weeks from your time because certainly you will be ill, it's a constant. My head has grown accustomed to expecting this constant flux of fake-information-toxicity to appear in "obvious universal problems"
Is it new? Weren't there moon landing deniers and JFK conspiracy people and Truthers within a year, long before the modern Internet algorithm nonsense.
What's new is that they didn't have a great way of banding together. The village idiots were shunned, or had small groups that wiser people just rolled their eyes at.
Now they're bigger and more organized, to the point that the size / availability of their crazy ideas seems to lend credibility for many.
And that money is being poured in to weaponize their chaos and hate.
I cannot disprove the worldwide claims. But I live in Spain in southern Europe and this past month has been far better than last July was, when we were hitting 38C every day for weeks on end. The heat this summer has been much more punctuated.
That's why the term global warming is misleading and climate change is a better term. But like you said it's just that a global average and not just individual places
Meanwhile in some places there were temperatures statistically impossible to reach...
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