Essays by Eric Worrall
Wouldn’t it be a tragedy if the press’s weather hype got so bad that people started ignoring all the climate change hype?
Tornado bomb? Or just wind with exaggerated chance?
As the barometer goes down, the volume of the ‘hype’ increases, and many meteorologists aren’t happy about that.
Via Matt Richtel
January 18, 2023DENVER — Last week, days after a bomb tornado (along with a series of atmospheric rivers, some of the Pineapple Express variety) devastated California, a downtown convention center here was flooded. Floods by the forces responsible — not due to heavy rain and wind but for forecasting.
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But there are worrisome undercurrents. …
The widespread use of colorful terms such as “bomb storm” and “atmospheric river”, along with increasingly common categories, color and Name hurricanes and weather patterns, have struck meteorologists as a mixed blessing: good for public safety and climate change awareness but potentially amplifying to the point of it leaves the public numb or uncertain about the actual risk. The new vocabulary, devised by the weather science community in many cases, threatens to spiral out of control.
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Ultimately, the language dilemma reflects a larger challenge. On the one hand, scientists say, It’s hard to overstate the profound risk that global warming poses for Earth’s inhabitants for the next century and beyond. But the drumming of the language may not be suitable for the everyday nature of many weather events.
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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/18/science/weather-forecasts-language.html
Dying of hype? Perhaps climate alarmists should listen to advice from their companion Stephen King, before they embark on a journey of uncontrolled exaggeration.
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There’s nothing scarier than what’s behind closed doors. The audience holds their breath along with the protagonist as she/he (more often she) approaches that door. The protagonist opens it, and there is a three meter tall bug. The audience screamed, but this particular scream had a strange sound of relief to it. The audience thought: ‘A three-meter-tall bug is horrible, but I can deal with a ten-meter-tall bug. I’m afraid it could be hundreds of meters tall’.
Horror artwork is almost always disappointing. It’s a classic no-win situation. You can scare people with the unknown for a long time but sooner or later, like in poker, you have to turn your hand over. You have to open the door and show the audience what’s behind it.
The thing is, with things like Dachau, Hiroshima, the Children’s Crusade, the mass famine in Cambodia – human consciousness can deal with almost anything… this makes the writer or director of Horror stories encounter a psychological problem equivalent to making up. a space drive faster than light in the face of E=MC2.
There is and always has been a school of horror writing (I’m not one of them – play to draw rather than to win) people who believe that the way to beat this rap is to never open the door.
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The source: King Stephen, Scary Danse;
Failure in this strategic communication would be the death of the climate movement. There will always be a core group of climate bed wetting people who will believe all the hype, no matter how absurd. But for the common people, the alarmists opened the door and revealed a rat.
There are only so many times people can survive a bomb tornado or atmospheric river or climate apocalypse, before they start to ignore it, like all the other nonsense hype. that we are attacked every day in life.
At least the New York Times has finally admitted that climate alarmists’ insecurities have gone so far that they can’t even accept them. Hopefully this isn’t the last time the NYT recognizes serious flaws in the doomsday climate frenzy.
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