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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: rangerrebew on August 16, 2017, 12:26:07 pm

Title: Does doom and gloom convince anyone about climate change?
Post by: rangerrebew on August 16, 2017, 12:26:07 pm

Does doom and gloom convince anyone about climate change?
New York magazine article brings teachable moment on communicating climate change science
by Erika Engelhaupt
1:30pm, July 28, 2017
 

A couple of weeks ago, an article in New York magazine laid out a horrific scenario of global warming. The photo at the top summed up the tone: A fossilized human skull, jaw gaping beneath aviator sunglasses, hovered over a caption warning that people could be “cooked to death from both inside and out” in a hotter climate.

If that’s not doom and gloom, I don’t know what is. Yet despite being a complete downer, the article quickly became New York magazine’s most-read story ever.

https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-public/new-york-magazine-climate-change?mode=topic&context=60&tgt=nr

Title: Re: Does doom and gloom convince anyone about climate change?
Post by: Joe Wooten on August 20, 2017, 12:47:13 am

So, what if the magazine had a bunch of their supporters keep clicking on the article to make it seem like it was being widely read? Outside of the coastal "elites", who reads that pile of garbage?