🌍 Social media posts have taken weather maps out of context to falsely claim a German TV channel is exaggerating the effect of climate change
RTL spokeswoman Michelle Wilbois said in an email that the RTL Aktuell broadcast aired on August 22, 2019 -- not in 2020, as the post claims.
Wilbois sent AFP a clip of the broadcast for comparison. The layout matches the image shared on social media, as do the clothes worn by hostThese screenshots show the image shared on social media and the original August 22, 2019 broadcast from RTL The original clip shows a sunset in the background, not fireballs. Häckl's face appears to have been colored red in the image shared online, which also omits the studio lighting.
"The screenshot has been edited," Wilbois said."RTL has not used fire graphics in the context of weather forecasts at any time."Climate scientists agree that carbon emissions from humans burning fossil fuels are heating the planet, raising the risk and severity ofthat show how climate change has made heatwaves more likely.
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