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Problem with climate related news is that it has such a bad record on wrong prediction that i’m having a hard time believing anything that’s written in regular
by bsaul 7y ago
Problem with climate related news is that it has such a bad record on wrong prediction that i’m having a hard time believing anything that’s written in regular newspaper. it’s just working too well at freaking people out, even the most scientific minds.
For example, I can’t remember the first time i read about ‘ arctic ice completely disappearing in the next ten years‘, or the polar bear going extinct..
- wolfd 7y agoWhile some headlines may be overly aggressive, many (anecdotally) of the very serious consequences of climate change are predicted to happen on the order of 50/100 years from now. There are a couple reasons this sucks: - some people seem to not care about that far in the future - people seem to be pretty bad at detecting change in their environment over longer time scales A memorable example of the second one: https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2014/02/05/257046530/big-fish-stories-getting-littler https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2014/02/05/257046530/b...