26-07-2023, 17:21
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laeva recumbens anguis
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Re: Climate Change
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Originally Posted by Chris
Mine’s boiled by people who think internet memes and cobbled-together Tw*tter graphics are a decent argument for (or rebuttal of) anything at all, ever.
There has been a trend in TV weather towards using graded colour to indicate temperature, rainfall, rain accumulation, variance from average and all sorts of things. This has become possible because weather models and observations are a lot more granular than they used to be.
‘To scare you’ is an assertion that simply isn’t supported by the evidence available in the photo. We don’t know whether the two pictures are even from the same forecaster, so we can’t see how else their graphical presentation of the weather may have changed in the *six years* between the two images.
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https://www.reuters.com/article/fact...-idUSL1N2Z30KX
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Professor John Marsham, Met Office joint-chair at the University of Leeds, told Reuters via email the adaptations had been made to help people living with colour blindness.
He said: “The (Facebook) post is misleading as it claims the Met Office has changed its colour schemes so that temperatures which before did not look scary now do. In fact, it was actually done for colour blind people.”
Likewise, the BBC told Reuters via email that it adapted its weather forecast maps from 2017 to make them more accessible to viewers, particularly those who live with colour blindness.
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https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ent...b0116f21c06717
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