The Weather Report
Does anyone else find the weather report really, really irritating? All that drama! It’s going to rain! Oh how exciting! A low pressure weather front is moving in! Oh my, grab the kids!!
And the pseudo-scientific detail! The rain is going to be caused by water droplets, that’s droplets of H2O, in the air that will succumb to gravity, under normal conditions, and eventually reach us, possibly at 6:20 or maybe 6:21.
Thing is, all that drama and detail distracts us from what’s really going on with the weather. Notice the obsession with proximate causes? Is it because if they addressed the real causes, those remote causes like CFCs and fossil fuel consumption/emission, they’d have to address blame?
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Jim
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Nov 12, 2017 08:20AM
I abhor TV. Even the CBC Radio news. None of it is unbiased or true reporting. Just going for the WOW factor. Then you'll hear everyone chattering over it at the break table the next day. Sigh.
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What really pushes my buttons is that certain sports like Tennis or Golf are newsworthy. Since when are sports part of News? Sports are sports. I always wonder too, if our wildfires are news in California. Something tells me not.
