{"id":19369,"date":"2025-08-22T22:26:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T22:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=19369"},"modified":"2025-12-09T12:19:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:19:30","slug":"19369","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2025\/08\/22\/19369\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: Another fake “died from heat” story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tour guide collapses and dies in sweltering Rome heat<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Giovanna Maria Giammarino died of a suspected heart attack during a guide shift in 31C heat<\/a> at the Colosseum<\/a> on Tuesday (19 August).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 56-year-old collapsed in the amphitheatre at around 6pm and could not be revived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colosseum tour guide dies after collapsing in amphitheatre<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

31C is about 87 degrees F – this was the high temperature for the day, but it was 82 degrees at 6pm<\/a> according to weather data for August 19th<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While high temperatures can be a factor in heart issues, that does not seem likely at 82 degrees F which is an ordinary summer temperature. Perhaps it was instantaneously warmer in some locales (always possible).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The media blames this death on heat – and thence, climate change. One would think story tellers would ask about the temperature at 6 pm and cross check the data. In fact, she was climbing up stairs when she had a heart attack (Guide collapses and dies in front of horrified tourists she was showing around Rome\u2019s iconic Colosseum | The Sun<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The media has done this before: Climate: We don\u2019t know the cause of death but it was definitely climate \u2013 Social Panic<\/a>. As I documented:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first paragraph: \u201cWhile authorities are still investigating what caused a Disney runner<\/a> to die, it\u2019s possible that heat played a factor in the young man\u2019s death. Temperatures were in the triple digits on the day that he died<\/strong>. In fact, he even complained about the heat shortly before his death.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Except those statements are not true. In fact, the run started at 5 AM when the temperature was in the low 70s. He had complained about running in the heat on days BEFORE <\/em><\/strong>the race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story says he went into cardiac arrest \u2013 which is not how heat exhaustion -> heat stroke normally work \u2013\u00a0particularly since it was only in the mid-70s at the time this occurred<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 a fact omitted from the news story.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Journalists lie. All. The. Time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is another example, but this time, it was my Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR, D-MA) who played this sleight of hand. NOTE – high temperature of 107 degrees, but this photo was taken in the early morning, which is indicated by the long shadows. It was still hot – in the 90s – but not 107 degrees at the time this photo was taken (I would have not worn long pants either).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Weather in July 2025 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another story alleging a death due to heat – except it was 82 deg F at 6 pm at the time the subject had a heart attack. This mistake has been made before, when a runner died on a day with “triple digit” temperatures. Except the race began at 5 am and temperatures were in the low 70s during the race. Details matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,29,30,352,39,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lies","category-media","category-media-propaganda","category-misinformation","category-fake-news","category-fictional-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}