Comments on: Tornadoes, or Not Tornadoes? Or, How The Media Mis-Covers Climate http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2011/06/06/tornadoes-or-not-tornadoes-or-how-the-media-mis-covers-climate/ Where science collides with life, slams into culture, crashes with politics, and gets totaled. Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:28:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Brian Too http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2011/06/06/tornadoes-or-not-tornadoes-or-how-the-media-mis-covers-climate/#comment-103205 Brian Too Tue, 07 Jun 2011 01:21:13 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=18520#comment-103205 5. Jessie Desmond, Poetic but incomprehensible. 5. Jessie Desmond,

Poetic but incomprehensible.

]]> By: Jessie Desmond http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2011/06/06/tornadoes-or-not-tornadoes-or-how-the-media-mis-covers-climate/#comment-103120 Jessie Desmond Mon, 06 Jun 2011 16:47:16 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=18520#comment-103120 They were TRAINED! and things still went to Hell. Reality deficit disorder birthed deformed decisions creating economic cloudy days. If you live in Tornado Alley, your building and utility codes must be contingent. Has there ever been a spring when downstream flooding was not an Officially declared unpredictable disaster? Texas has drastically drawn down its water table pursuing agriculture in semi-desert. Bottom of the bucket, folks. Canada repaired Grand Banks codfish yield collapse by vigorously subsidizing larger more efficient fishing boats. The Grand Banks, the most productive fishery on planet Earth, was sterilized. Management obsesses on what is measurable instead of promoting what is important. Management exists to kill the future, for the only trusted employee is one whose sole marketable asset is loyalty. If levied penalty is less than profit in hand, it's not a deterrent - it's a business plan. They were TRAINED! and things still went to Hell. Reality deficit disorder birthed deformed decisions creating economic cloudy days. If you live in Tornado Alley, your building and utility codes must be contingent. Has there ever been a spring when downstream flooding was not an Officially declared unpredictable disaster? Texas has drastically drawn down its water table pursuing agriculture in semi-desert. Bottom of the bucket, folks.

Canada repaired Grand Banks codfish yield collapse by vigorously subsidizing larger more efficient fishing boats. The Grand Banks, the most productive fishery on planet Earth, was sterilized. Management obsesses on what is measurable instead of promoting what is important. Management exists to kill the future, for the only trusted employee is one whose sole marketable asset is loyalty.

If levied penalty is less than profit in hand, it’s not a deterrent – it’s a business plan.

]]> By: Chris Mooney http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2011/06/06/tornadoes-or-not-tornadoes-or-how-the-media-mis-covers-climate/#comment-103117 Chris Mooney Mon, 06 Jun 2011 16:27:52 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=18520#comment-103117 Yeah, deniers never have trouble dismissing evidence! But I'm afraid your defense doesn't fly with me. Yeah, deniers never have trouble dismissing evidence!

But I’m afraid your defense doesn’t fly with me.

]]> By: GregM http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2011/06/06/tornadoes-or-not-tornadoes-or-how-the-media-mis-covers-climate/#comment-103114 GregM Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:47:41 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=18520#comment-103114 Here's how I would justify it: The article was about the need to prepare for new weather extremes and she used Joplin as an example because it was recent and extreme and the town thought it was prepared for tornadoes. Its a good lead for focusing on the issue of preparedness or lack thereof. The sentence that left me wanting more was this: "Even those who deny the existence of global climate change are having trouble dismissing the evidence of the last year." I wish she would have given some examples of deniers having trouble dismissing evidence. Here’s how I would justify it: The article was about the need to prepare for new weather extremes and she used Joplin as an example because it was recent and extreme and the town thought it was prepared for tornadoes. Its a good lead for focusing on the issue of preparedness or lack thereof.

The sentence that left me wanting more was this: “Even those who deny the existence of global climate change are having trouble dismissing the evidence of the last year.” I wish she would have given some examples of deniers having trouble dismissing evidence.

]]> By: Chris Mooney http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2011/06/06/tornadoes-or-not-tornadoes-or-how-the-media-mis-covers-climate/#comment-103112 Chris Mooney Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:26:37 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=18520#comment-103112 Yes, as tornadoes are a news hook, I can see how editors could be to blame for this. You can never know who did what unless you are on the inside of the publication. The ultimate result is the same. Tornadoes are used and linked to climate change even as the article itself backs away from that very claim. Yes, as tornadoes are a news hook, I can see how editors could be to blame for this. You can never know who did what unless you are on the inside of the publication. The ultimate result is the same. Tornadoes are used and linked to climate change even as the article itself backs away from that very claim.

]]> By: Jennifer Leavitt-Wipf http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2011/06/06/tornadoes-or-not-tornadoes-or-how-the-media-mis-covers-climate/#comment-103111 Jennifer Leavitt-Wipf Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:03:21 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/?p=18520#comment-103111 Giving Sharon Begley the benefit of the doubt, I have had editors add misleading promotional blurbs to a story. (And also, sometimes, change one word that transformed correct information into incorrect information.) Just a thought :) Giving Sharon Begley the benefit of the doubt, I have had editors add misleading promotional blurbs to a story. (And also, sometimes, change one word that transformed correct information into incorrect information.) Just a thought :)

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