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By Paul Homewood

h/t Joe Public

The hysterical Justin Rowlatt continues to catastrophise summer weather!

The record June temperatures have been driving an exceptional number of fish deaths. Here’s the @EnvAgency’s provisional map of the major incidents. I’ve been at the #knowlelocks complex in Solihull for @BBCBreakfast. pic.twitter.com/oswHgL5KQt

— Justin Rowlatt (@BBCJustinR) July 3, 2023

Note that Rowlatt does not provide any data to compare fish deaths with prior years! It makes you wonder what he is hiding.

Whether it really was the hottest June or not, the temperature for the month as a whole was not exceptional in summer terms, with a mean of 17.0C on CET. In most years it gets hotter in July and August.

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/data/download.html

Since 1659, there have been 127 months with temperatures of 17.0C and higher. If all of these fish deaths really are due to hot weather, then we would expect to see mass die offs every year.

We also know that peak temperatures during the month were not exceptional either, reaching 28.6C. The chart below only runs to 2020, but it confirms that daily temperatures often hit 28C in June:

https://www.ecad.eu/utils/showindices.php

And the BBC cannot blame the die offs on lack of rainfall either:

As many have pointed out to the hysterical Rowlatt, how much of the problem is down to sewage and pollution?

Of course, the BBC is quick to play the pollution card when it suits them!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/65631256