This week will be scorching, and no one can ignore the high temperatures throughout the country.
But here again, some skeptics find fault.
The heat would not be particularly more important than before, according to them, it would only be a modification of the colors of the weather maps.
A few years ago, a temperature like this week's was indicated in yellow, and today in red.
In 1986, it was called a normal summer.
Today they're coloring the map red and calling it extreme heat.
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Some cry out for a new manipulation by the media and institutions.
The opportunity for climate skeptics to obtain a new argument to deny the existence of global warming.
“It is a vast hoax,” write some.
What is it really about this publication shared several thousand times on Twitter?
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The two photographs shared on social networks represent weather maps in Sweden.
On the left, the post claims that it is from 1986, with a green background and approximately the same temperatures as the map on the right, this one from 2022, with an orange background.
It's actually montages.
By an image search, we discover that the map on the left, supposedly from 1986, actually displays the weather forecast for Thursday, July 21, 2016. Temperatures considered "high summer" for the country, by the site of the public channel of Sweden.
The second map is also not from 2022 as indicated, but from August 13, 2021. And the image shared on social networks which represents the maximum temperatures is visible at 1:09 of the video.
These are forecasts by meteorologist Madeleine Westin on TV4, another television channel.
They are therefore maps of different television channels, which therefore do not necessarily use the same color codes and which do not deal with the same thing.
The first indicates the weather, the second the maximum temperatures, which explains this difference.
Apart from these color stories on weather maps, there are many reports that temperatures have risen.
The data available on the government's website indicates global warming indicates that the last five years are the five warmest observed since 1850. ranks first among the hottest years since 1850, with 2019 ranking second,” the site says.
The IPCC finds that the rise in global temperature has increased further, at a rate that will most likely exceed the threshold of 1.5°C of warming since the pre-industrial era between 2021 and 2040.
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