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Climate Crisis Any news source that reports "record-breaking temperatures" is, deliberately or not, making these dangerously increasing temperatures sound like
by vbuwivbiu 7y ago
Climate Crisis
Any news source that reports "record-breaking temperatures" is, deliberately or not, making these dangerously increasing temperatures sound like a good thing.
This extreme heat is costing us $$$
- chapium 7y agoI missed the part where "deadly heat wave" was a framed as a good thing.
- vbuwivbiu 7y agothat's my point: many news sources are framing it as a good thing by not calling it what it is: a deadly heat wave
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- kbenson 7y agoNo, record-breaking means it broke a record. If it was used almost exclusively for positive things, you might have a point, but it is routinely used for negative things as well. For example, "storm" is the third most related topic based on Google trends.[1] 1: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=record-breaking&geo=US https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=record-breaking&g...
- vbuwivbiu 7y agoThere's no universal law that declares it has to be reported as such