Lightning strikes will more than double in Arctic as climate warms

https://phys.org/news/2021-04-lightning-arctic-climate.html

by dnetesn • 5 years ago

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hntroll666• 5 years ago

Fear propaganda. Is there actually any claim being made that can be tested in a reasonable amount of time? If not, it's not science. They might as well run the headline "A giant hamburger will squash the earth in a thousand years". It's useless.

The pattern that plays out day after day is this: someone blessed as being associated with Real Science says something, and the press is then free to make a scary story out of it with their ass covered, because they were just relaying what a Real Scientist said. It doesn't matter if it's not really science because it's not a specific claim, or it's not replicable, or whatever. The scientists get publicity, and the media gets clicks. Ten years later when the scary prediction don't come true, nobody remembers. There's no reckoning. Nobody pays any price for their part in endlessly terrorizing the public.

Another epidemic in news coverage is purposeful, deliberate failure to check for precedent. The media has learned that checking for precedent almost always makes things less scary, so why would they ever do that? If they provided context for forest fires, for example, they'd have to say that they're down 90% since a century or so ago. Who's going to click on that?

Lightning strikes will more than double in Arctic as climate warms

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