Iโm sorry but Iโve Gotta go in on Sam Smith this is just wrong ๐คฃ๐คฆ๐ปโโ๏ธ
Can someone explain to me why he would put something like this out on his social media?
Some of the people you lot try cancel & this is perfectly fine, in fact probably praised ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฆ๐ปโโ๏ธ๐คฆ๐ปโโ๏ธ We are doomed.
I like to observe the media and look for patterns.
Patterns I've noticed about coverage of the "climate":
- Weather used to be a two minute affair at the end of the news.
- There are more news stories about the weather than ever before.
- There are more stories about the weather when it's hot than when it's not
- When it's not hot in the UK, especially when it's not hot in summer, there are lots of stories about other places where it's hot
- When it's not hot in the UK, especially when it's not hot in summer, there are frequently forecasts of very hot weather to come, even though it often doesn't materalise.
- When it's been unusually cold somewhere, like at the moment when it's snowing in Johannesburg for the first time in decades, there is little coverage or if it; or if there is it's described as freak weather
- whereas a single hot weather event is nearly always attributed to climate change
- Weather maps have changed colour over the years; in the past the land was generally coloured green; now even on typical summer days the land ranges from orange to scarlet. For a given temperature, the colouring is much more alarmist.
- Storms in the UK (even relatively minor ones) are now named, drawing yet more attention to the weather being "unusual"
- There is regular reference to "unprecedented" records without giving any context about the period over which the record is "unprecedented"
- Weather forecasts now often use hyperbole: we have "heat plumes" and "weather bombs" and "beasts from the East"
- The above patterns apply to every news provider in the UK, and seem to apply to all Western countries as well judging by the weather coverage I've seen.
I expect this pattern of behaviour leading very strongly in one particular direction with no balance or context is just yet another coincidence. ๐
Scorchio!
Oh no, I've fallen under the spell now too. ๐