South Sudan is experiencing “extreme heatwaves” and is shutting schools and cutting power, reports BBC meteorologist Matt Taylor. “It is exceptionally early for South Sudan to experience such heat – temperatures often exceed 43°C but only in the summer months, according to the World Bank’s Climate Change portal,” he states. Hot days in the capital Juba – five degrees north of the equator – are for some a big ‘climate change’ story, but it is difficult to read into the World Bank data the interpretation that Taylor wants to publicise. In fact it is impossible, since the data clearly show that average South Sudan temperatures peak in March and then fall away through the wet monsoon ‘summer’ months.
Quite how Taylor can draw the conclusion from the above World Bank graph that it is “exceptionally early” for South Sudan to experience such heat, in a place where temperatures often exceed 45°C “but only in the summer months”, is not clear. Anybody else looking at the graph would draw the opposite conclusion. Perhaps Taylor is unclear on the difference between rainfall totals (the blue bars, which do peak in the “summer months”) and average temperatures. He also seems to be unaware that South Sudan is equatorial so does not have a “summer” and certainly not in June through August.
In fact the “heatwaves” in South Sudan drew headlines in other climate-crazed mainstream media. The New York Times reported on March 20th that: “Climate change already worsened floods and droughts in the young nation. Now soaring temperatures are forecast for two weeks.” Both the BBC and NYT write about temperatures soaring well past 40°C, but, as is often the case, we must count the spoons and consult the original sources when dealing with such unreliable propagandists.
According to the Time and Data website, in the five days up to March 21st the temperature in Juba only once went over 40°C at midday. Since a 42°C high last Sunday, the temperature has dropped up to 6°C. Hot, it would seem, but not exceptional at the equator.
But the BBC was in full disaster mode with Taylor reporting that South Sudan is the latest in a “long-line” of countries to experience blistering and, in many cases, record-breaking heat. “This heat is very serious, and it’s really affecting our work,” says Wadcom Saviour Lazarus, who is said to run an NGO. “Because of this heat we are not able to move from one place to another,” he adds. Juba resident Ayaa Winnie Eric is said to take “lots of water to keep me hydrated”. Light clothes are worn and walking in the hot sun is avoided.
How did people cope in the past living right next to the equator? Of course they didn’t have ‘climate change’ alarmism to cope with as another World Bank graph below demonstrates.
The graph plots the temperatures for South Sudan going back to 1901. On a five year smoothing average, the temperature in 2022 at 27.64°C was only 0.41°C higher than 121 years ago. Interestingly, since 2007 the average temperature has actually dropped a full degree centigrade from 28.64°C to 27.64°C. Looking at the cyclical nature of the graph, it is difficult to see a correlation with trace atmospheric carbon dioxide which has of course risen throughout the period.
The Taylor story is another crass example of the constant fearmongering undertaken in the mainstream media to nudge populations to accept the collectivist Net Zero project. In this case it can only be assumed that readers will take the hint over devasting human-caused climate change and not look at the underlying data. South Sudan is a hot, under-developed African country that has been racked by civil war. Infrastructure is basic, electricity and air conditioning frequently fails. Meanwhile, the population of Juba has risen tenfold since the 1970s to reach half a million.
The investigative journalist Paul Homewood is an excellent source for the constant stream of BBC climate howlers. In fact he runs an annual review of some of the best BBC bloopers. How we laugh when we read his latest publication noting that “extreme weather linked to climate change” has eroded the soft sand cliffs of the Norfolk village of Happishburgh. No mention, needless to say, of the findings of the British Geological Society that it is likely the Norfolk cliffs have been “eroding at the present rate for about the last 5,000 years”. Who can forget the report that bee-eater birds have turned up in Norfolk, which was reported to be a worrying sign, “unmissable” no less, of how our climate is changing. It was a shame to spoil the story by noting that bee-eaters have been frequent visitors to England in the past. One archive alone lists 80 sightings between 1793 and 1957.
No doubt, to be cont’d.
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May we ask Paul Homewood for the current link to that excellent pdf?
The file that the link goes to might no longer exist. However, that’s odd: the page has also been removed from the internet archive (https://web.archive.org/)., despite having been archived twice. More generally, it is quite a problem to keep any repository of links up to date as the items to which the links go will inevitably and non-suspiciously be unavailable, at least via those links, because of “link rot”. For example, the maintainer of numberwatch (John Brignell) eventually got bored or overworked with trying to maintain the warmlist, which gradually accumulated dead links, and the warmlist itself (www.numberwatch.org) has disappeared not only from the live internet but from the archive. (https://web.archive.org/web/20170915170835/http://numberwatch.org/)
This is not necessarily sinister, but the ghost of Nikolai Yezhov has just passed through my mind.
How long before an increasingly impoverished public start to say “Wait a minute, what is going on here”? ——-How is it that people hardly believe a word coming from the mouths of politicians on almost every issue. On the economy, on immigration, on education, on foreign policy etc etc etc, yet on climate they swallow it all down as ultimate truth.? —–Net Zero based on phony climate science and speculative modelling is sucking the life out of western economies. We are covering our countrysides and coastlines in unreliable expensive wind turbines and we can all see the huge rises in our energy bills since we started doing this, yet people somehow still believe politicians when they say wind is now cheaper than coal and gas. —-WHY? If the price of apples trebles but the price of pears stays the same no one would believe governments when they say apples are cheaper, yet they believe that wind is cheaper despite the huge rise in energy prices. ——Propaganda is a very powerful tool and that is why governments use it. ——–I hope everyone on Daily Sceptic has now viewed Martin Durkins film “Climate The Movie” by now. Even if they already knew about most of the stuff in it that exposes the eco socialist scam for what it is. An anti capitalist anti human political fraud.
Fully agree. ‘C-The Movie’ should be compulsory viewing for every UK household since it distills the entire scam of AGW/Climate change into a very watchable 80 minutes which confirm beyond any shadow of doubt, we’ve ‘been sold a pup.’
With questions like this my imagination fills in a picture of Lord Percy in the ‘Chains’ episode of Blackadder where he struggles apparently painfully to articulate:
Public: Perhaps…they’re not…telling us…the truth…at all! Perhaps…we’re…being…hoodwinked!
Climate loon: Nonsense only an idiot gets hoodwinked.
Well that’s reassuring.
I have been refusing to be hoodwinked for about 20 years, but some people think I must be a conspiracy theorist. ——Except the conspiracy is on them not me.
I think it’s quite easy to explain. The difference between economy, education, immigration, foreign policy etc and climate (or Covid/vaccines) is faith. Climate change is faith-based, the others are not. People are replacing religion.
Yep blind faith and believing things gets you into a whole lot of trouble. As you continue to keep believing things before you know it you have no gas central heating, no affordable energy, no car, no holiday in Tenerife or Florida, Nd a fillet steak is off the menu. But hey the Green Lord acts in mysterious ways.
Do summer and winter have any real climate significance so close to the equator?
Latitude, it seems, is a geometrical stretch too far for the climate loons.
It’s a white, male construct no less.
The text says they don’t.
That last “mean average temperature” chart correlates well with the world averages shown in Climate: The Movie. Hot in the 20s and 30s, lower in the 50s up to the 80s, and peaking a decade or so ago. Those CO2 levels are all over the place!
You’re missing the point of the story. Which is extrem 40⁰ before summer, namely, our summer. That’s what people are supposed to notice. Anything beyond that is just filler words. They can’t use yadda-yadda for that because this would be too obvious and hence, they’re using South Sudan instead. Which is – for practical purpose – just yadda-yadda for most people who don’t have an idea of where either south or Sudan is — well, somewhere certainly. But it’s extreme 40⁰ and not yet summer!
These people are addressing an audience of brainwashed imbeciles and supplying the phrase they’re supposed to start repeating in the run-up to summer.
BBC tells porkies on the most important issue of all for everyone’s prosperity and welfare, yet I see only 14 comments from DS subscribers. I am sure that is going to have the Climate Industrial Complex running away with their tails between their legs having been exposed as charlatans. ——No, not likely ——-It is a bit like a mouse trying to bite a blue whale.
When the COVID nonsense had started in earnest, I made the resolution that I may not be more than a grain of sand in the larger scheme of things but that I’m going to be grain of sand going against the grain, whatever that would accomplish.
If you fight, you may lose. If you don’t, you have lost.
wink——-I just wish I had few more grains of sand with me.
Everyone that continues to pay the TV licence fee are supporting the BBC and complicit in spreading their propaganda.
Stop paying the licence fee.
Better yet: Stop TV. We’re all supposed to be ‘entertained’ couch potatoes which don’t get in the way because they’re occupied with staring on a screen where stuff they’re supposed to pay attention to is shown. TV programming is people programming.