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There's a really scary picture of a power plant leading off the story. There is a huge amount of smoke pouring out of its smoke stacks. Only, most of the smoke
by fakesmoke 9y ago
There's a really scary picture of a power plant leading off the story. There is a huge amount of smoke pouring out of its smoke stacks.
Only, most of the smoke stacks are chillers and most of all that smoke is steam. The chillers looks like the kind most often associated with nuclear power plants.
If you took all those emissions and photoshopped away all the H2O, you'd have a very small wisp of smoke. That smoke would still be a problem. But the photo would not inspire fear and concern.
When an article leads off with that kind of spurious fearmongering, it damages any real value that might exist later in the article. Any real data and real concerns get obscured in all the fake smoke the article is purposely generating.
- sqeaky 9y agoCO2 is invisible. Pictures makes articles more appealing, easier to understand and profitable. It's not like they are even lying, you agree there is some smoke an pollutants in there. What should they take a picture of? Can't smokestacks, a long time symbol of industry, be just that a symbol? It's not like they are lying about the numbers in the article or even make claims about the picture.