Richard Hammond’s car company fined after appearing in court<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n “I think the reason the weather’s gone wrong over the last two years is that Greta Thunberg is now more bothered about Palestine than she is about global warming,” joked Mr Clarkson.\n<\/p>\n
\n “That’s why we’ve got this terrible problem, but I actually genuinely believe next year will be a normal summer.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Speaking to the crowd, he added: “I’m going to bet you if there’s any farmers out there, I reckon [it’ll be normal].\n<\/p>\n
\n “The average farmer age is around 65 or 66 these days? So we all remember 1976, and if you think back, 1977 was very nearly as hot.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We had two really hot years one after the other then, and then 1978 was shocking. We’ve just had two really hot years. So I’m just saying.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Known for his work on Top Gear and The Grand Tour, the TV presenter owns Diddly Squat Farm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-613500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}