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    • Jessica2 years ago

      I've been feeling very morbid about the climate crisis lately. There's the depressing climate-drought relationship near where I live, and then these climate-related disasters.

      “If you issue a weather warning which says there’s going to be 200 millimeters of rain tomorrow, that doesn’t mean anything. It doesn’t mean a lot to me — and that’s my area of specialism, so I doubt it means very much to the general public,” Speight said. “We need to change how we communicate warnings. For example, instead of saying, ‘There will be 200 millimeters of rain,’ we need to say, ‘There will be rapidly rising water levels, damage to properties, a risk to life.’”

      Science communication is just as important as the science itself. I think we often do ourselves a disservice when we fail to communicate the real-time effect of situations such as this one (200 mm of rain) or the alarmingly high temperatures in my geographic area (fire danger associated with certain activities, power shutdowns).