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Comments by "Hugh Jorgan" (@HughJorgan1) on "Extreme cold weather blankets parts of Canada" video.
The media love to use words like ever, record, all-time and historic for weather and storm events. These are massive lies-by-omission. We only have accurate weather data for about 100 years and storm strength data for about 50 years. On a 4.5 billion year old planet.
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Kudos to CBC for not contributing to misinformation on weather events. Not once did I hear illogical hyperbole to describe the storms. Even better, not once did I hear the standard lies-by-omission used by media when reporting weather events. These include use of words/phrases such as "historic", "worst ever", "all-time" and "record". We only have accurate weather data for about 100 years. And we only have accurate storm-strength data for about 50 years. On a 4.5 billion year old planet. In other words, nothing's truly a 'record' or 'historic'. The media often spread unreasonable fear on weather and climate thru exaggeration and lies-by-omission. In doing so, they feed ignorance.
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