BigbluekayzamarieNov 30, 2023
Chris Ferguson

You know, we don't thank our #weather people, #meteorologists, and #climate scientists enough. They perform important work every day, and I wish we had a notable national or global holiday to celebrate them and thank them for their tireless work. Stories like this pain me to read, I hope we all can take a moment and be grateful for climate #science and the people behind it.

Thank you.

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/29/1215554774/weather-experts-in-midwest-say-climate-change-reporting-brings-burnout-and-threa

#climatechange #globalwarming

Nov 30, 2023 at 4:14amWeb
Show threadMark Ingalls Nov 30, 2023
@ChrisFerguson so glad I don’t deal with the public at work.
Show threadThomasNov 30, 2023
@ChrisFerguson there needs to be science about global warming (in my opinion), but computing very precisely how the weather will be in every place is not necessary except for planes (maybe also ships, not sure). It is, however, extremely compute-expensive, which means we use lots of power for this. This is also what meteorologists do, and I don’t want to celebrate it. It’s more about military than passenger planes, I guess, and it’s way more precise than the TV weather forecast.