• kossa@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    But May only was average because of extreme weather. In both directions. The heat wave in May was abnormally hot, followed by the cold front you were describing, which was abnormally cold for May. And it doesn’t help the people at risk during heat, that there’s some cold and wet afterwards which cancels out the heat wave oN aVeRaGe.

    And that is the point.

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      No, the point is that media is talking about an extreme heat wave while I’m freezing my ass off without several layers of clothing. The point is that global warming is not some magical “you are all dying from heat stroke”-event but just a small increase in avarage temperatures wreaking havoc with established weather patterns.

      Yet that is not what is reported. We don’t talk about rain, rain and more rain and low temperatures that are only averaged out by 3 very hot days. We are not talking about extreme weather with regular shifts of +/- 15° from one day to the next. We are instead talking about every single hot day as if it’s the end of the world. And then we are somehow surprised when idiots claim it’s all made up bullshit. Because it is. Start talking about the actual issues, not about some imaginary hot month because there were also a few hot days in that cold period.

      You can’t simplify your argument as absurdum and still think it’s concinving. After the 5th “insane heatwave” report that ended up in just two day of warm weather or none at all, you need to understand that your style of reporting is actually hurting as it gives lunatics valid arguments.