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I’d like to see a global version of this, and with inclusion of more complex weighting than just 10% outliers. You want to weight “freak” events more. And I’d like to see a broader extremes index measured in terms other than dollars. Notice the “billion dollar weather” reporting
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In general,I’m not a natural quant, and I trust stories more than I trust naive data, or worse, unacknowledged agenda-driven data. But when the storytellers are traditional media, I’ll take data, even from suspect institutions, any day.
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This is a terrible article about bad research. The original research is ill-conceived and apparently driven by some sort of vague ecofeminist research question to find gender differences but it at least makes a half-assed attempt to factor by household type, urban-rural etc.
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The Guardian article mangles even that, ignores all nuances, juxtaposes with random pointers to “related” issues like climate impact of child-bearing. The result is a dumb article that elides everything actually salient while pushing a zero-sum gender-war framing.
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I couldn’t have asked for a more perfect example of the “zero-sum transform” phenomenon I did a thread about yesterday. The Guardian article is literally written to suggest that climate action is primarily a gender relations issue and that other details are rounding errors.
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Take a random issue, and consider a *random* take on it. As in, derived by situating it in a context induced by a random intention. Like: issue = “is icecream good?” Contexts: taste, biology, health, insecurity, science, climate… Is the take likely to be zero or nonzero-sum?
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I’m trying to make up good filter criteria for what makes for good climate reporting. Unfortunately there’s way more examples of bad than good, so I need to collect a good reference set of “good” first. Articles that exhibit real insight, rhetorical sophistication, and good faith
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Its not reporting but research on climate change that is a problem.There is no centralized standard for carbon emissions that researchers wear their hats and look at the problem from their insular specialization.The issue is primary focus of research is on news not academic.