Be happy about the weather: Anchor’s remark on UK heat wave is straight out of ‘Don’t Look Up’ film
Kairi brown
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Be happy about the weather: Anchor's remark on UK heat wave is straight out of 'Don't Look Up' film
A few days before the UK recorded the temperature of his heat, a TV news anchor made a warning of the excess death of a meteorologist because of the unprecedented heat waves sweeping the country.
Video Exchange went viral after Twitter users showed how the GB News host response during the segment was very similar to the fictional interview in the film director Adam McKay 2021, Don’t Long Up.
For those who haven’t watched the Satir masterpiece, don’t look for the Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence stars as two scientists who try to sound warnings about meteors approaching the earth without much luck.
In one scene, scientists appeared on a news program to warn the world about the consequences of the approaching meteor, only to be laughed at by anchors who were too optimistic.
And now life imitates art, as exhibited in the GB News interview. The host asked British meteorologist John Hammond about the weather after the Met office issued a yellow warning six days before the heat wave. That was then upgraded to red – a warning of danger to life from extreme heat – three days later.
This will not be a good weather, this can be potentially deadly weather in a few days,” Hammond said.
Anchor Bev Turner’s reaction immediately came out of Don’t Slongsing when he said, “I want us to all be happy about the weather. I don’t know what happened to a meteorologist to make you a little fatalistic. Every time I turn on a new one, everyone talks about the weather and says there will be many deaths. But don’t we always experience hot weather? “
Isn’t this summer ’76 this hot?” He then asked when a meteorologist shook his head with a touch of disappointment, and answered firmly ‘no’.
Hammond began to explain that the summer of 1976 was a “strange event” but in recent years, Britain has witnessed high temperature records at increased frequencies, and heat waves will only become more severe.
The heat waves become more extreme … I don’t think we have to be too light because of the fact that many will die over the next week because of the heat,” he said.
Just like Hammond warned, the heat wave broke the record, making it the hottest day in England with temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius in several regions.
Although not looking for the upcoming apocalyptic events, it can also be interpreted as an effective allegory for the rejection of climate change.
The film that was nominated by Oscar was a nod in the warning that we have about the impact of global warming and rising sea levels and how people, companies, and world leaders are willing to choose or underestimate them.
