By Paul Homewood
You will no doubt remember this pack of BBC lies:
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68835575
As I commented at the time, the article was focussed on Bamako, the capital of Mali, a highly overcrowded and polluted city with a population of over 4 million.
The claims of 48C temperatures have not been borne out at official stations – as so often, the BBC just takes unsubstantiated claims as gospel.
Senou is a small town just 9 miles from Bamako and it does have an official weather station. There temperatures peaked at 44.1C, well below the BBC’s claim. And that was not even a record, which stands at 45.5C.
Temperatures of 44C and over have also occurred in past years, such as 1991, 1996 and 2003. And the KNMI graph below shows no evidence that extreme heat in Mali is getting worse because of climate change:
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https://climexp.knmi.nl/gdcntmax.cgi?id=someone@somewhere&WMO=MLM00061291&STATION=SENOU&extraargs=
Senou’s temperature data is corroborated by other nearby official stations. Bougouni, Kita and Koutiala recorded 43.9C, 43.8C and 44.2C respectively.
