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Run for the hills! It's teh global warming!!! Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
You know, all this alarmist crap making the news is really starting to bother me. Here is a direct quote from last night's weather cast:
"We haven't seen winter temperatures this warm in over half a century of record keeping."
Umm, 'scuse me? Half a century? As in 50 years?? Do you ignorami have any idea how long there has been weather?? You want people to panic because the planet has the nerve to change weather patterns over the course of 50 years?
You know, I have come to expect to see news casters blow things out of proportion when I watch the American stations (for some reason, they seem to think that the news has to be exciting there or people will switch to the OC for knowledge of what is going on in the world ... or something). But, I have always been happy to say that our local news station just tells it like it is. Impartial and accurate.
In the last several weeks of 'extreme weather coverage', there has only been one segment that had a scientist telling people that, 'Hey! It is winter, people! Storms happen in the WINTER!!'
I am very against scare tactics used to get people to do the right thing. There are better ways to motivate people. I mean, do you tell your kids that a crazy person will cut their ears off if they don't clean their rooms?
Though, to be fair, my mom did used to tell me not to make funny faces or the wind would change and it would get stuck that way. Unfortunately, I have never been able to hold a funny face long enough to try that out :P
--Phae
You know, all this alarmist crap making the news is really starting to bother me. Here is a direct quote from last night's weather cast:
"We haven't seen winter temperatures this warm in over half a century of record keeping."
Umm, 'scuse me? Half a century? As in 50 years?? Do you ignorami have any idea how long there has been weather?? You want people to panic because the planet has the nerve to change weather patterns over the course of 50 years?
You know, I have come to expect to see news casters blow things out of proportion when I watch the American stations (for some reason, they seem to think that the news has to be exciting there or people will switch to the OC for knowledge of what is going on in the world ... or something). But, I have always been happy to say that our local news station just tells it like it is. Impartial and accurate.
In the last several weeks of 'extreme weather coverage', there has only been one segment that had a scientist telling people that, 'Hey! It is winter, people! Storms happen in the WINTER!!'
I am very against scare tactics used to get people to do the right thing. There are better ways to motivate people. I mean, do you tell your kids that a crazy person will cut their ears off if they don't clean their rooms?
Though, to be fair, my mom did used to tell me not to make funny faces or the wind would change and it would get stuck that way. Unfortunately, I have never been able to hold a funny face long enough to try that out :P
--Phae
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Date: 2006-12-20 03:48 am (UTC)--Phae