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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
What????? Huh?????
That's not what the thread is all about. No one thinks the media should not report a hurricane that is out to sea and may approach land.
The point is that certain powers have an agenda to make TRILLIONS off the backs of our citizens, and the media is either actively or tacitly complicit in pushing this false narrative by forecasting imminent doom via predictions of more frequent and devastating hurricanes and daily reports of "heat indices" vs. the actual temperatures.
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All true. But it is not just the hurricanes. It is the incessant hoopla that precedes them that is fascinating. I think the progression is "tropical wave", followed by "tropical depression", followed by "tropical storm", all culminating in of course the HURRICANE. The doom-and-gloomers start their caterwauling every time a "wave" comes into being (or even if the conditions are ripe to produce one). I once looked up the frequencies of those. Can't recall exactly but it was something like only 50% of waves become "depressions, only 50% of depressions become tropical storms, and only 50% (sometimes much fewer) of tropical storms become hurricanes. But the way they're selling it Armageddon is just around the corner every time a wave appears.
But it is not just hurricanes. Back in Minnesota we had low temps in the winter as a matter of course. A favorite of forecasters seemed to be POSSIBLE wind chills, as in "wind chills are forecast to be as low as -55". That was the that limit of the range, and it rarely reached it, but it did indeed help to frighten people.
Another oddity was the "polar vortex". In the more northern climes, right after a substantial snowfall, we'd get a "Canadian High". Bright blue skies, lower temps, and wind. A Canadian High was to be welcomed: it meant that we could go out and shovel/plow the most recent accumulation, haul up some more firewood, strap on the X/C skis and go for a quick trip over the bright new snow, etc. However one day the weather guys stopped forecasting Canadian Highs and instead started calling them a "polar vortex". They (of course) emphasized the wind and the temperature drop in their forecasts, warning parents to PLEASE BE SURE L'il Jennifer was bundled to the max because of that GAWDawful polar vortex that was on the way (as if Minnesota parents don't know that already) and recommended supervision AT ALL TIMES when kids ventured out in mid-vortex.
The kicker is that one weather guy actually admitted that the term "polar vortex" was coined for precisely that reason. To generate fear.
Yep. Incite fear in the gullible and you can make them do just about anything.