This is how they manufacture propaganda.

[Anti Federalist]

Came across this paragraph, in a CNBC report on the latest Marxist propaganda study on "climate change".

“Almost half of the world’s population lives in regions that are highly vulnerable to climate change. In the last decade, deaths from floods, droughts and storms were 15 times higher in highly vulnerable regions,” she added.

Oooo. Sounds pretty scary huh? 15 times!

Unless you stop and think about that wording...

Deaths were 15 times greater from floods and storms if you were in a "vulnerable area".

IOW you'd be more likely to die in a hurricane if you lived near the shore at sea level as opposed to a mountain top.

They have to word it this way however, because the truth is, in a hundred years, we have managed to reduce deaths from natural disasters by 75 percent, while the world wide population has tripled.

According to data from the International Disaster Database EM-DAT, the annual number of deaths from natural disasters like floods, earthquakes, droughts, storms and extreme temperatures is 75% lower than it was a century ago. From 1907 – 1916 a little over 325,000 people died each year as a result of natural disasters; 100 years later during the period 2007 – 2016 the average annual death toll had fallen to 80,386.1 In 2021 there were 432 disastrous events related to natural hazards worldwide which accounted for 10,492 deaths and affected 101.8 million people.

 

[CaptUSA]

Came across this paragraph, in a CNBC report on the latest Marxist propaganda study on "climate change".

“Almost half of the world’s population lives in regions that are highly vulnerable to climate change. In the last decade, deaths from floods, droughts and storms were 15 times higher in highly vulnerable regions,” she added.

Oooo. Sounds pretty scary huh? 15 times!

Unless you stop and think about that wording...

Deaths were 15 times greater from floods and storms if you were in a "vulnerable area".

IOW you'd be more likely to die in a hurricane if you lived near the shore at sea level as opposed to a mountain top.

They have to word it this way however, because the truth is, in a hundred years, we have managed to reduce deaths from natural disasters by 75 percent, while the world wide population has tripled.

According to data from the International Disaster Database EM-DAT, the annual number of deaths from natural disasters like floods, earthquakes, droughts, storms and extreme temperatures is 75% lower than it was a century ago. From 1907 – 1916 a little over 325,000 people died each year as a result of natural disasters; 100 years later during the period 2007 – 2016 the average annual death toll had fallen to 80,386.1 In 2021 there were 432 disastrous events related to natural hazards worldwide which accounted for 10,492 deaths and affected 101.8 million people.

+ rep. Great catch! They use words as a means to obfuscate rather than inform. While "technically" true, they tell the exact opposite of reality.

This thread should be used as a collection point for these types of deceptions! Here's another to keep it going:

https://www.nrdc.org/bio/madhur-boloor/electric-vehicle-basics

Electric motors makes vehicles substantially more efficient than internal combustion engines (ICEs). Electric motors convert over 85 percent of electrical energy into mechanical energy, or motion, compared to less than 40 percent for a gas combustion engine. These efficiencies are even lower after considering losses as heat in the drivetrain, which is the collection of components that translate the power created in an electric motor or combustion engine to the wheels. According to the Department of Energy (DOE), in an EV, about 59-62 percent of the electrical energy from the grid goes to turning the wheels, whereas gas combustion vehicles only convert about 17-21 percent of energy from burning fuel into moving the car. This means that an electric vehicle is roughly three times as efficient as an ICE vehicle. Needing less energy to power your car also helps bring down the cost.

Nope - this means that you want people to believe that EV's are 3X as efficient. Anyone who has picked up a couple of high school guards from football practice knows you need more energy to move more weight... Now, have the tackles sitting on their laps and you're approaching the weight of the batteries you have to carry around all day, every day.

 

[Anti Federalist]

+ rep. Great catch! They use words as a means to obfuscate rather than inform. While "technically" true, they tell the exact opposite of reality.

Thanks, and this goes right here:

This thread should be used as a collection point for these types of deceptions!

I'm game, lets do that.

 

[RJB]

When I told a Japanese woman that I was from Missouri, she covered he mouth in horror and asked if my family was OK. I didn't know what she was talking about at first.

I was stationed in Japan when the '93 floods "devistated" Missouri. I didn't realize it was international news. I explained to her that the only people suffering were those who built houses in the FLOOD plain.


As an aside:
There are things that worry me about the enviroment. The decline of the bee colonies. Also a decade or two ago, any time I drove somewhere in the summer, I had to regularly clean my windows of dead flying insects. I don't have to clean my windows anymore. A change of a fraction degree in temperature isn't going to kill the flying insects. Climate change is a diversion as I am sure that most of you know. There have always been floods, famines, and hurricanes. They are not any worse now than before. My grandfather who lived through the Dust Bowl often attested to that. There are other things afoot that we can't talk about.

 

[Mach]

Just another day.



In linguistics and related fields, pragmatics is the study of how context contributes to meaning. The field of study evaluates how human language is utilized in social interactions, as well as the relationship between the interpreter and the interpreted.

In the branch of linguistics known as pragmatics, a presupposition is an implicit assumption about the world or background belief relating to an utterance whose truth is taken for granted in discourse.



pre·sup·po·si·tion
/ˌprēˌsəpəˈziSH(ə)n/
noun
noun: presupposition; plural noun: presuppositions

a thing tacitly assumed beforehand at the beginning of a line of argument or course of action.

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https://frictionfreesales.com/persuasive-language-presuppositions/

 

[Dr.3D]

When I told a Japanese woman that I was from Missouri, she covered he mouth in horror and asked if my family was OK. I didn't know what she was talking about at first.

I was stationed in Japan when the '93 floods "devistated" Missouri. I didn't realize it was international news. I explained to her that the only people suffering were those who built houses in the FLOOD plain.


As an aside:
There are things that worry me about the enviroment. The decline of the bee colonies. Also a decade or two ago, any time I drove somewhere in the summer, I had to regularly clean my windows of dead flying insects. I don't have to clean my windows anymore. A change of a fraction degree in temperature isn't going to kill the flying insects. Climate change is a diversion as I am sure that most of you know. There have always been floods, famines, and hurricanes. They are not any worse now than before. My grandfather who lived through the Dust Bowl often attested to that. There are other things afoot that we can't talk about.

I expect with the new "vaccine" for honey bees, things will get worse for them.

 

[Anti Federalist]

UN calls for mass fossil fuel shutdowns to prevent 'climate time bomb'

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/un-calls-mass-fossil-fuel-shutdowns-prevent-climate-time-bomb

Published March 20, 2023 2:13pm EDT

The United Nations (U.N.) published its latest climate change report Monday, which doubled down on global warming-related risks and which the intergovernmental organization dubbed a "survival guide for humanity."

The synthesis report, assembled by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), represents the U.N.'s latest attempt to sound the alarm on the risks posed by climate change and not taking aggressive actions to halt global warming. According to the document, "unsustainable energy and land use" has caused the world to warm 1.1 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, close to the 1.5-degree emergency threshold.

"The rate of temperature rise in the last half-century is the highest in 2,000 years," U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said in a video message Monday. "Concentrations of carbon dioxide are at their highest in at least 2 million years. The climate time bomb is ticking. But today’s IPCC report is a how-to guide to defuse the climate time bomb. It is a survival guide for humanity."

"As it shows, the 1.5-degree limit is achievable. But it will take a quantum leap in climate action," he continued. "This report is a clarion call to massively fast-track climate efforts by every country and every sector and on every time frame. In short, our world needs climate action on all fronts, everything, everywhere, all at once."

 

[Occam's Banana]

UN calls for mass fossil fuel shutdowns to prevent 'climate time bomb'
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/un-calls-mass-fossil-fuel-shutdowns-prevent-climate-time-bomb
Published March 20, 2023 2:13pm EDT

The United Nations (U.N.) published its latest climate change report Monday, which doubled down on global warming-related risks and which the intergovernmental organization dubbed a "survival guide for humanity."

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"As it shows, the 1.5-degree limit is achievable. But it will take a quantum leap in climate action," he continued. "This report is a clarion call to massively fast-track climate efforts by every country and every sector and on every time frame. In short, our world needs climate action on all fronts, everything, everywhere, all at once."

"All remaining airports close" ... "All shipping declines to zero" ... "Fossil fuels complete[ly] phased out"

 

[Occam's Banana]

UN calls for mass fossil fuel shutdowns to prevent 'climate time bomb'
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/un-calls-mass-fossil-fuel-shutdowns-prevent-climate-time-bomb
Published March 20, 2023 2:13pm EDT

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The Science[SUP]TM[/SUP] in 2023:

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1637801949432012801

https://twitter.com/RealSpikeCohen/status/1637817029540413442

 

[Occam's Banana]

This is how they manufacture propaganda.

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https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1641825660984279041

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[jmdrake]

Came across this paragraph, in a CNBC report on the latest Marxist propaganda study on "climate change".

“Almost half of the world’s population lives in regions that are highly vulnerable to climate change. In the last decade, deaths from floods, droughts and storms were 15 times higher in highly vulnerable regions,” she added.

Oooo. Sounds pretty scary huh? 15 times!

Unless you stop and think about that wording...

Deaths were 15 times greater from floods and storms if you were in a "vulnerable area".

IOW you'd be more likely to die in a hurricane if you lived near the shore at sea level as opposed to a mountain top.

They have to word it this way however, because the truth is, in a hundred years, we have managed to reduce deaths from natural disasters by 75 percent, while the world wide population has tripled.

According to data from the International Disaster Database EM-DAT, the annual number of deaths from natural disasters like floods, earthquakes, droughts, storms and extreme temperatures is 75% lower than it was a century ago. From 1907 – 1916 a little over 325,000 people died each year as a result of natural disasters; 100 years later during the period 2007 – 2016 the average annual death toll had fallen to 80,386.1 In 2021 there were 432 disastrous events related to natural hazards worldwide which accounted for 10,492 deaths and affected 101.8 million people.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Anti Federalist again.

That should be a t-shirt. I had to look at it twice to realize what it was saying. The conditioning is so strong.