Something shifted a few years ago and I can't think how to fix that way of thinking. It's as though cynicism has become a disease of some kind, not just an attitude but a disorder. As you say, they're angry that hurricanes are stronger than before, angry that they're not as strong as predicted, angry that science is constantly examining and re-examining facts on the ground. There is an industry in "proving" that we're being lied to, and it's based on angry base emotions.
I'd rather uproot my life than have it taken away from me altogether.
Yeah, I'm not disagreeing just saying it's understandable.
I've heard that described as the 'anger-industrial complex'...
A bunch of angry people wrote in to points of view and the newspapers about it at the time, plus there was a lot of noise in the news. The problem with social media is that it's given all of the deranged 'green pen letter' fuckwits a platform, a megaphone, and the means to network and organise with similar unhinged morons.
Yeah I wasn't born at the time but when I was growing up people talked about it as a kind of a 'lol you can't trust weather forecasts' as opposed to some big conspiracy about it.
Technically it wasn't a hurricane, it was the remnants of one from the US. By the time it reached here the winds weren't strong enough to be classed as a hurricane.
I remember the 'Chemtrails' conspiracy from the early 2000s at least and the idea of 'cloud seeding' around then. I think there was a few trolls on urban like 'windsor' who promulgated such stuff but they were universally laughed at. So the ideas have been around a long time, but they used to be almost completely dismissed.
I dunno I looked it up on wiki and it definitely had winds that were well over hurricane strength but it was an extratropical cyclone and not a hurricane. Everyone used those words pretty interchangeably though.
Gusts yes but not sustained wind speeds.
Yeah, but those dipshits were largely isolated and irrelevant -even in the online world. Back then you needed to actively seek out that sort of idiocy whereas nowadays a SM algorithm can just push that crap right into your feed with no searching required... It doesn't help that major public figures are also pushing the bullshit as hard as possible, and that was never a thing with wider societal impact back then. I remember when David Icke first went loon on national TV, what followed was ridicule, the end of his career and ostracisation to the loon convention circuit (before internet 2.0 hastened his odious return to public visibility). These days if some famous twat effectively had a nervous breakdown on national TV they'd have a book deal, a reality documentary series 'in the works' and a ginormous SM profile within a matter of days, all whilst other twats in the media and their allies subsequently relentlessly sanewash them and make them out to be not quite as divorced from reality as they clearly are.
Yes exactly.
I agree with that but… even with all the smoke and mirrors of SM there must ultimately be a worrying number of people prepared to embrace, share and believe these views. It wouldn’t be a grift if people weren’t buying it.
Cloud seeding does take place. The US air force used it to try to make it rain over North Vietnam, and bombed the dykes, in order to created flooding in the country.
Well, cloud seeding does have some success. It is used in Russia to make clouds drop their rain before they reach Moscow on a day when there is a big parade. The rain-laden clouds have to be around to be seeded, though. No-one can magic up clouds.
Well, of course not. I think people do not realise amount of energy in these storms but the more important objection is: why? Why would a government destroy parts of its own country?
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