Originally Posted by MandoMan (Post 2242696)

I hear you. This isn’t a government plot. It’s a newscast plot. All of these TV news stations base their charge for advertising on how many people are watching. Most TV news stations, have taken to doing whatever they can to keep people watching. Decades ago, the weather report was boring. Now, the stations do whatever they can to keep people watching instead of changing the channel or going to the kitchen or something. The best way they have found is by presenting the weather report in an alarmist way and warning you throughout the news that you won’t want to miss this. Garbage. They are presenting the unlikely worst it could be as if people should worry about it. Thus the heat index. It’s so much more impressive than just the temperature because it’s so much higher. In the north, they also do it with the Wind Chill Factor. It looks so much scarier, so you keep watching through the next commercial to find out what horrible thing to expect. Alarmist! Remember that word. Don’t believe TV weather reports. I use Weather Underground online. It just takes a minute, and it’s in line with the national report combined with lots of local weather gathering stations. Try it. It’s very different from what you’ll see on TV, but more accurate. Imagine! You’ve been wasting maybe half an hour a day on TV weather! You don’t need to do that. TV weather also tries to keep people watching by using attractive weather women in sexy dresses and high heels. That’s for you, guys, and they lay look great, but the way they are being used is disgusting. Or they use weather men who crack jokes. Keep ‘em laughing. Yech! How often to you see serious, plain weather people these days? It isn’t common.

I don’t watch TV news or TV news/entertainment mixtures like Good Morning America at all (and I don’t get news from sites like Facebook, either). I thus save myself hours a day to use on other things—like writing this. I find much of the so-called news on TV to be alarmist and lacking in context. If there isn’t video available, it isn’t covered because it’s boring. Someone’s speech isn’t generally covered unless the person makes a gaffe or trips and falls. That’s when it becomes “newsworthy”. TV news is trying to make you a news junky—an addict. And the News level is aimed at the lowest common denominator of the audience. Do you want to be that dumb and gullible? Just say no!

Originally Posted by kansasr (Post 2242347)

Your grandchildren are just going to love the world we're leaving for them.

Originally Posted by mikemalloy (Post 2242710)

Are you referring to the debt that they will have to service?

Originally Posted by golfing eagles (Post 2242393)

What make and model of SUV did Fred Flintstone drive???

Originally Posted by golfing eagles (Post 2242345)

I generally watch WFTV (ABC affiliate) in the morning for local news and weather. I have no idea about other stations, but for the last 2 weeks they have been pushing harder than ever their narrative of high temperatures. This morning they claimed that we have substantially higher temps than normal, and used the terms "unprecedented", and "dangerous". What is insidious is their use of "heat index" almost to the exclusion of actual temperatures so they can put triple number digits on their map. No comparison of these "heat indices" with past values are given.

OK, actual high temps in the Villages 7/27-8/3----94,96,95,96,96,98,96 avg 95.86
Oh, wait a minute, that was LAST year
This year, same dates---89,90,96,97,91,95,93 avg 93.00 or 2.86 deg COOLER
This is what the weatherman claimed is "substantially higher than usual". So I'm calling BS on that.
I can only assume that the news media has access to more complete temperature data than those numbers I just pulled off the accuweather website, so clearly they are LYING TO US. Why???? Is there an agenda at work here?

Meanwhile, pretty much all of Central Florida is under a heat advisory, which the weatherman stated was unusual. True, there was no heat advisory this time last year when it was 2.86 degrees WARMER. So why is that?

Well, heat advisories are issued by the National Weather Service, a division of NOAA which falls under the Department of Commerce, lead by a cabinet level secretary.
So, here is what they are doing:
"Today, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina M. Raimondo announced funding opportunities from NOAA's $2.96 billion in Infrastructure Law funds to address the climate crisis and strengthen coastal resilience and infrastructure. Over the next five years, NOAA’s targeted investments in the areas of habitat restoration, coastal resilience, and climate data and services will advance ongoing federal efforts toward building climate resilience.

Looks like they're getting plenty of media support for their "efforts"

Draw your own conclusions, but IMHO it appears that reporting temps as heat indices, issuing heat advisories when it is actually cooler than last year, and Good Morning America's lead story every day on the weather serves to push the continuing false narrative of "global warming", for which a few figure to profit immensely.

Addendum: This morning's GMA story is about a glacier they hunted for that is melting at an "unprecedented" rate. Probably true, but there are other glaciers that are growing. And in another 40,000 years those glaciers will grow 2 miles of ice over much of the Northern Hemisphere.

Originally Posted by golfing eagles (Post 2242345)

I generally watch WFTV (ABC affiliate) in the morning for local news and weather. I have no idea about other stations, but for the last 2 weeks they have been pushing harder than ever their narrative of high

OK, actual high temps in the Villages 7/27-8/3----94,96,95,96,96,98,96 avg 95.86
Oh, wait a minute, that was LAST year
This year, same dates---89,90,96,97,91,95,93 avg 93.00 or 2.86 deg COOLER
This is what the weatherman claimed is "substantially higher than usual". So I'm calling BS on that.
I can only assume that the news media has access to more complete temperature data than those numbers I just pulled off the accuweather website, so clearly they are LYING TO US. Why???? Is there an agenda at work here?

Meanwhile, pretty much all of Central Florida is under a heat advisory, which the weatherman stated was unusual. True, there was no heat advisory this time last year when it was 2.86 degrees WARMER. So why is that?

Well, heat advisories are issued by the National Weather Service, a division of NOAA which falls under the Department of Commerce, lead by a cabinet level secretary.
So, here is what they are doing:
"Today, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina M. Raimondo announced funding opportunities from NOAA's $2.96 billion in Infrastructure Law funds to address the climate crisis and strengthen coastal resilience and infrastructure. Over the next five years, NOAA’s targeted investments in the areas of habitat restoration, coastal resilience, and climate data and services will advance ongoing federal efforts toward building climate resilience.

Looks like they're getting plenty of media support for their "efforts"

Draw your own conclusions, but IMHO it appears that reporting temps as heat indices, issuing heat advisories when it is actually cooler than last year, and Good Morning America's lead story every day on the weather serves to push the continuing false narrative of "global warming", for which a few figure to profit immensely.

Addendum: This morning's GMA story is about a glacier they hunted for that is melting at an "unprecedented" rate. Probably true, but there are other glaciers that are growing. And in another 40,000 years those glaciers will grow 2 miles of ice over much of the Northern Hemisphere.