Summer in Porto has so far been mild and pleasant with temperatures steady at around 24C since early June. We haven't had a single heat wave. If this persists, this year's summer will be the mildest, most pleasant summer I've had over the sixteen years I've lived in Porto. It has therefore come as a surprise to me that the rest of southern Europe is said to suffer intolerable from the heat. However, there's a twist to the reporting that explains it all.
The temperatures reported this year are measured closer to the ground than they used to. The standard was to report temperatures measured at 2 meters above ground, but this has now been changed. Temperatures closer to the ground are typically warmer, so this explains why we're getting such high temperatures reported for what is in most places nothing but a normal summer.
This is of course done in order to substantiate the claim that we have a climate crisis on our hands and that urgent and radical actions need to be taken. But we are no more having a climate crisis than we had a pandemic a few years back. It's all spin for the purpose of moving wealth from the middle class into the hands of politically connected billionaires.
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| Greta Thunberg |
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