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4 apocalypses that never were
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54% Informative
John Sutter : Media are addicted to scaring us about climate change.
He says it's not true that climate change is worsening droughts or wildfires.
Sutter says climate change doesn't dry out trees, it's weather, but land management is the key to wildfire fires.
He also says sea level rise will not cause catastrophic damage, but we can adapt to it.
VR Score
55
Informative language
50
Neutral language
27
Article tone
informal
Language
English
Language complexity
33
Offensive language
likely offensive
Hate speech
not hateful
Attention-grabbing headline
not detected
Known propaganda techniques
detected
Time-value
short-lived
External references
11
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2004/feb/22/usnews.theobserverhttps://www.aims.gov.au/monitoring-great-barrier-reef/gbr-condition-summary-2023-24https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162520304157#fig0012https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162520304157#fig0009https://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2021/04/30/how-climate-change-is-worsening-drought/https://archive.org/details/KNTV_20210722_013000_NBC_Nightly_News_With_Lester_Holt/start/934/end/994?q=vaxxershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?si=MQC6kyQnPMpc5D-G&v=GctDsMw8N4Y&feature=youtu.behttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-67735681https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-droughthttps://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/great-barrier-reef-terminal-now-whathttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWSqGasIX3U
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