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9. To Be clear, if it bleeds it leads US media, the same with devastation
Wed Jun 24, 2026, 07:54 PM
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if it produces anxiety it gets coverage. Two weeks of people suffering from the heat IS the Sexy shit on television

TO help you understand... thing about 2 weeks of temps ten degrees F above normal. That's 140 degrees over 10 days. Divide 140 degrees by 3650 days over ten years. The result is SMALL but that's the excess leverage. That small leverage is what will move aa statistical analysis of climate.

NOw in a real analysis it would be excess degrees over a measures area over days against the area aand same time for global measurements

But I wanted to present the general idea of my perspective. The swings in temperature MUST be taken in the context of the timeframes (and typically continental sized areas) used in discussing global climate.

Meterology, especially television reported meteorology lives on the thrill of the reporting... climate is powerful, small swings are very powerful, but they don't make exciting television.

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