David Attenborough predicted this in 2007 and it’s happened two years early
You might have noticed it’s been quite hot this summer and it made Leo Hickman remember a programme fronted by David Attenborough 11 years ago.
In January 2007, the BBC aired a special programme presented by Sir David Attenborough called "Climate Change – Britain Under Threat".
It included this imagined weather forecast for a "typical summer's day" in 2020… pic.twitter.com/jrDJnb4yWt
— Leo Hickman (@LeoHickman) August 1, 2018
And they predicted these temperatures for 2050 – how much earlier than that will this happen?
…and a little later in the same prog, they include an imagined weather forecast for August 2050…
“Half of the days in that month are expected to be hitting 30C” pic.twitter.com/bBxbkQbUMe
— Leo Hickman (@LeoHickman) August 1, 2018
And he also said this.
Attenborough's sign-off at the end:
"Climate change is surely the single biggest issue the human race now faces…We now have the facts…For all of us, it's truly now the time to act" pic.twitter.com/3trMgyIGTz
— Leo Hickman (@LeoHickman) August 1, 2018
11 years later, the world is still waiting.
Pretty good forecast from Jay Wynne https://t.co/bFF14r1C1e
— Peter Gibbs (@PeterGWeather) August 1, 2018
It really sucks to be able to say I told you so.
— Pilgrim (@PilgrimsPlaces) August 1, 2018
https://twitter.com/SAMWAF53/status/1024698229408112641
This is not a drill.
This is not a drill.
This is not a drill.
I have never been so hot in my life as I have been living in London this summer. It's not a freak heatwave, this shit will continue to happen and get worse. #ClimateChangeIsReal https://t.co/4VUExb6WUl
— Clem Flanagan (@itsclembrulee) August 1, 2018
At some point, the future stops being the future and starts being the present… https://t.co/spwVTReETx
— Dr Simon Lee (@SimonLeeWx) August 1, 2018