This meteorologist’s epic takedown of a GB News presenter over climate change gets more relevant by the day

Poke Staff. Updated July 17th, 2026

Here’s a rather fabulous thing from back in the day, after GB News invited the Met Office’s John Hammond to chat about a series of hot weather warnings in the UK (sound familiar? Of course it sounds familiar!).

Presenter Bev Turner wasn’t overly concerned, and tried to laugh it off with that climate sceptics’ favourite – “But the summer of ’76, blah, blah, blah.”

Watch how that worked out for her.

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“I don’t know whether something’s happened to meteorologists to make you all a little bit fatalistic and harbingers of doom.

Haven’t we always had hot weather John? I mean wasn’t the ‘76 …the summer of ‘76 – that was as hot as this, wasn’t it?”

“Er, no. And we are seeing more and more records, more and more frequently and more and more severely. So yeah, some people always hark back to the summer of ‘76 – which was a freak event 40 odd years ago.

Consider her told. TikTok users enjoyed seeing Ms Turner corrected in the wake of the exchange back in 2022.

“Don’t Look Up” film comes to mind.
Gary

Oh John, but if I close my eyes, it just goes away, right?
Ina Pal

Unsurprisingly Brexit TV wants to try & take us back to a one off nearly 50 years ago.
EaseSprings

No-one wants to know the truth, John. We’re trying to be happy ‍♂️
Brando

What’s with the gaslighting? So bizarre.
george

One person answered Bev Turner’s question.

“What’s happen to the meteorologists to make them so fatalistic?” IDK, babes, maybe they have an education.

Four years later it’s not just happening again, it’s absolutely off the scale.

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