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Fabien Binacchi
Posted June 24, 2025 at 6:32 p.m.
He has tens of thousands of followers who are looking forward to his wise forecasts every day. Very followed on social networks, where it is in particular the rain and the good weather of Marseille and the Bouches-du-Rhône, the meteorologist Paul Marquis, founder of the Apps The weather of 13 and previ+, also sometimes faces hatred waves. As soon as it is a question of abnormal warmth and heat wave, as at the moment, and more generally climate change, certain Internet users, that he does not hesitate to qualify as “climatosceptic”, give himself to heart. “We are very regularly insulted,” he said to Marseille news.
“It’s really worse in worse”
Passionate about meteorology since he was very young, Paul Marquis ended up making him his job. A profession thanks (because of) which, he also found himself another occupation … in spite of himself. “” The moderation of comments My social networks takes more and more time. I may be over an hour a day. It’s really worse in worse, ”blows the specialist.
Like his colleagues, and in particular Guillaume Séchet, whose rant against “a level of stupidity that he would never have believed possible” made great noise, the weather expert of the Bouches-du-Rhône Essue torrents of taunts and insults on some of his publications.
A comment posted on a publication by Paul Marquis, on Facebook (© Facebook screen capture)
“I am even accused of being paid by the government”
At the moment, with the heat wave episode, which reaches disturbing levels, it is a real festival, he recognizes. “Climatosceptic”, even “conspirators” come into action as soon as they can To deny climate change.
“I am called a stupid, a stupid. I am even accused of being part of the state or being paid by the government to tell the information I share, to make brain washing in a way, “explains the one whose expertise is no longer to demonstrate. His publications resume Verified and verifiable scientific data And climatological analyzes, which compare the weather over several decades, sourced.
When it is really insulting, I delete, and it happens very frequently. When that is not, and I have a little time, I still try to answer, to explain.
Paul Marquis
“It’s normal, it’s summer”
He only has to look at these latest publications, and in particular that, alarming, on “the Mediterranean, already overheating on June 23”. He explains that the water temperature is already “nearly 25 ° C off the coast of the Bouches-du-Rhône”, ie “an anomaly of 4 ° C for the period” and “Unheard of since the start of the surveys”which nevertheless started in the half of the 19th century.
He specifies that “even in 2003”, a heat wave of exceptional magnitude throughout Europe, “the sea was not as hot”.
Most internet users are rightly worried while some ironize or seek to minimize: “Long live summer and its warmth, never seen the snow in this season”, “‘Mediterranean in overheating 23 degrees’ lol”, “it’s normal, it’s summer”.
“Are you not tired of saying shit?” »»
On another publication, The charge is even more violent: “Oh … winter it’s cold … Oh … summer is hot … don’t you get tired of saying shit?” »Let go of a commentator, free of charge, to the address of Paul Marquis.
Others are right there to denounce what they believe to be “propaganda”. “A phenomenon that we have seen for several years, especially on X, but which tends to increase again. AndIt’s still very worrying“, Slice the meteorologist.
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