Looks remarkably like the old one, doesn't it?
How the media communicates about climate breakdown reflects and shapes how societies engage with the issue. Behind every picture that makes it into the news is a person mirroring and perpetuating how society thinks about climate breakdown.
That it's not always a terrible, terrible thing that we must expend precious resources on trying to change?
Our new research, led by the University of Exeter...
Another uttely pointless bit of 'research' that could be axed if only we had a truly conservative government...
...highlights a distinct problem with how the European media visually represents news of extreme heat.
I hate heatwaves personally. But some people love them. Go figure!
News media can picture heatwave visuals differently, though. The Dutch outlet Algemeen Dagblad produced visual stories of the reality of living with extreme heat. When they pictured a young family, they weren’t queueing for an ice-cream on a benign sunny day, but at home in front of a fan, looking visibly uncomfortable.
Could be me!
We want to be clear that this isn’t a call to the media to redact all images of people enjoying the beach on a hot day...
But you would if you thought you could get away with it, wouldn't you?
Climate Bollocks indeed... Nobody in the world can predict climate (i.e. there are no *validated* models) - and certainly world climate cannot be controlled by human intervention (zero evidence of effectiveness).
ReplyDeleteBut even IF climate could be predicted and controlled, the historical evidence is clear that overall, for the world *as a whole and on average*, the warmer the climate is - the better. And the higher the CO2 levels, the better. (See work by Freeman Dyson if you want the evidence and reasoning.)
This because warmth and CO2 encourage plant growth, upon-which all land life depends.
It is cooling (e.g. the deadly ice ages) and low CO2 that are harmful to life on earth.
But the main thing is that we (mankind) cannot predict future climate changes (all models are retrospective, none have been checked over time) and there are no validated interventions to control climate. We Just Don't Know - and that's all we really need to know.
(Note: The probable reason we don't know and can't control climate is because it is overwhelmingly driven by the sun, and - apart from the old-established 11 year sun-spot cycles - nobody can predict overall solar activity.)