Sick of hearing about record heat? Scientists say those numbers paint the story of a warming world: With a summer of extreme weather records dominating the news, meteorologists and scientists say records like these give a glimpse of the big picture: a warming planet caused by climate change. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-sick-scientists-story-world.html
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Those stories are sensationalist and potentially misleading by design. They get clicks, and paradoxically shut down thinking. People get outraged for a moment, then it passes and they move on to the next post, never having to absorb the implications of what’s actually happening.