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silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 9 months ago

Experts Are Fighting Over Whether to Treat Heat Waves Like Hurricanes | There’s a growing push to improve public risk awareness by giving heat waves names, just like hurricanes.

www.bloomberg.com

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Experts Are Fighting Over Whether to Treat Heat Waves Like Hurricanes | There’s a growing push to improve public risk awareness by giving heat waves names, just like hurricanes.

www.bloomberg.com

silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 9 months ago
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There’s a growing push to improve public risk awareness by giving heat waves names, just like hurricanes. Meteorologists are skeptical.
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    Top news: The Exxon-Moble Conflagration of Souls shows no signs of letting up temperatures soar as per usual.

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      I suggest we name them after the executives rather than the corporations.

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        I think we keep the company names to make it more digestible for the not terminally online. And use executive names as the sub titles.

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          Yeah, like this… “Our top story tonight, the Chevron/Mike Wirth heatwave, was responsible for 10 more deaths yesterday."

          How do we get this started? If we can erroneously associate a VP candidate with intimate furniture acts, then this must be possible.

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          I like it.

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      “Our top story tonight, the Shell Arctic EZ-Bake heatwave, now in its third week, shows no signs of letting up.”

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    hehe, I love where this is going. Name and shame, folks, name and shame.

    PS: https://carbonmajors.org/Entities has a list of the largest emitters (I don’t think this list is full historical emissions, just current)

    Get naming, folks.

    e.g. Hurricane Aramco, Firestorm Gazprom, Heatwave BP, proudly sponsored by…BP

  • 𝗧𝗼𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 *𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑝𝑢𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛@slrpnk.net
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    Relevant meme :P https://slrpnk.net/post/12165327

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