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Changed "may be escalating" to "escalating" in the title to meet character limit. In any case, the 'could' part upholds the overall conditional aspect of the o

• btdiehr 10y ago
  That's a grotesque misrepresentation of the article to change the title in that manner.
  • ninkendo 10y ago
    There's already a "could be" in the title, it seems redundant to put two may/could be's. You don't need to say that something "may be X so much that it could be Y", when you can either say "may be X so much that Y", or "is X so much that it could be Y".
    • inimino 10y ago
      The "escalating so fast" lost the qualifier, which does change the meaning.
    • kafkaesq 10y ago
      This "may" and "could be" was in the original title. I was just (attempting) to simplify it.
  • Fluid_Mechanics 10y ago
    This is clearly the most grotesque and irresponsible headline I've read all week. /s
    • btdiehr 10y ago
      Yes because it's missing a quantifier which completely changes the meaning of the title. Only controversial to call this out because it's a climate change article thus impervious to any and all criticism obviously.
• mac01021 10y ago
  It might have been more faithful to the meaning of the article to remove "scientists warn" from the end.