Weather forecasts in the news are okay to help promote 1-3 day = preparedness but talk about climate in very unilluminating ways. Who came up with the dumb idea of tracking "record" temperatures in convoluted sportsball ways?
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We argue about such charts only in the most far-removed cases where most of us have zero personal data to think about. Like million-year carbon levels and ppms. Leave that to the experts. Give us grokkable views of *local* climate trends using things we can sense like snow/rain.
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And these aren't hard to learn to read btw. They are in fact *much* easier to read and grok than the ritualistic sportsball-record type views of what's going on. High school grads learn to use such views of data in factories all the time. It's not that hard.
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I imagine there are powerful vested interests and climate skeptics trying to keep comprehensible climate situation awareness out of weather reporting but it feels like it manages to be lousy on its own around the world, even without Bond villains scheming to hide reality
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