Have you ever felt this science > media #whiplasheffect? To me the most discouraging aspect is how transitory efforts to capture 👀 ultimately disengage audiences with journalism.
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RT @revkin
The surges and reversals in science news often produce an audience #whiplasheffect (http://j.mp/whiplasheffect), whether health or climate or... The pattern worsens when the media focus on surprise narratives is fed with special-interest research fun…
https://twitter.com/Revkin/status/1650669684742672385

The surges and reversals in science news often produce an audience #whiplasheffect (http://j.mp/whiplasheffect), whether health or climate or... The pattern worsens when the media focus on surprise narratives is fed with special-interest research funding and amplification. Here's…
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RT @NaomiOreskes
This is great summary of how industry distorts science
1) Rig studies outright
2) Fund academic institutions to create subtle biases …
https://twitter.com/NaomiOreskes/status/1650586683514195968

Catching up w @KPaoletta's @Harpers critique of climate journalists (eg @dwallacewells) for hot>cool narrative shifts driven by perception change more than data: a slo-mo version of the #whiplasheffect http://j.mp/whiplasheffect I've warned of since '08. But Kyle misses something 1/
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RT @RogerPielkeJr
The Incredible Disappearing Doomsday
by @KPaoletta
How the climate catastrophists learned to stop worrying and love the calm https…
https://twitter.com/RogerPielkeJr/status/1647363979298365441

I agree the news process is biased toward the dire, and doesn't do much to track outcomes after headlines. The @RetroReport process could be more widely adopted by media, as one way to avoid a resulting #whiplasheffect Here's a relevant discussion: https://revkin.substack.com/p/behind-hot-headlines-climate-collapse-22-05-06
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RT @Spikels
@revkin @YaleE360 Not sure if you saw this good news on the Great Barrier Reef. This didn’t get much …
https://twitter.com/Spikels/status/1613667982961709056

I express concern when climate-focused media pump up #globalwarming connections to #extremeweather because this can lead to a #whiplasheffect http://j.mp/whiplasheffect that disengages audiences over time. This is still early-days attribution science:
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RT @revkin
@business I've got to ramp up my #watchwords series on #sustainwhat. When you see the word "could" in a story sifting for #climatechange hooks in extreme weather, test your conf…
https://twitter.com/Revkin/status/1606461984165199875