A GB News anchor has been compared to characters from Don’t Look Up after she tried to laugh off the heatwave sweeping the UK.
For those who haven’t seen it, Adam McKay’s sci-fi movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence as two scientists trying to warn the world about a meteor approaching the Earth without much luck.
Of course, it was meant as a thinly-veiled nod to the warnings we’ve had over the impact of climate change, and in the film they can be seen on television battling with overly optimistic broadcasters.
GB News anchor Bev Turner seemed to be in her own version of one of the scenes, as she appeared to shrug off the implications of the ‘lethal weather’ we’re expecting next week.
Speaking to meteorologist John Hammond earlier this week, she said: ‘See John, you’re outside enjoying the sunshine. It’s not too hot, is it?’
While he admitted the weather was more ‘mild’, he pointed out that ‘by earliest next week, you could scrap 20C, as it could well be 40C’.
Describing the charts as ‘frightening’, the expert warned we could see ‘hundreds if not thousands of excess deaths early next week’.
He added: ‘This will be potentially lethal weather for a couple of days. It will be brief but it will be brutal.’
However, Turner interrupted him and suggested meteorologists have become ‘fatalistic and harbingers of doom’.
