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To make a point. In this day and age, for the worse, news is sales. You want average people to pay attention, give them something they can't help but click on b
by hesdeadjim 5y ago
To make a point. In this day and age, for the worse, news is sales. You want average people to pay attention, give them something they can't help but click on because it sounds scary.
This site is a different kind of echo chamber, in that precision, nuance, and actual science tends to be rewarded with upvotes. If you fit in that category, you are multiple standard deviations above the mean news reader/watcher.
- zdragnar 5y ago> You want average people to pay attention, give them something they can't help but click on because it sounds scary. And then they completely ignore you or think the entire thing is a lie because you lied about the details. Pretty much every denial of anthrogenic climate change boils down to pointing out hyped up, exaggerated worst-case scenarios peddled in the media that didn't come to pass, even if the underlying data and original conclusions were accurate.
- hesdeadjim 5y agoThey already ignore it, and being scientific about 2.7°C doesn't do jack shit to change their mind. Link the 5°F to all sorts of concrete bad stuff going on instead 10+ year problems like New Orleans being underwater. For instance, "Houses in Oregon burned down because of record temperatures!". Use hyperbole, but make it personal. Hell, turn the narrative around if it manipulates people to care: "Five things the government doesn't want you to know about record temperatures!". It's just like the problem with US politics. One side plays fair, and the other doesn't. In the age of influencers, a dipshit like Joe Rogan has more sway than factual reporting by reputable news sources.