Posts mislead on German weather map colors, climate change

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🌡️ These photos do show a German TV program's weather maps in 2017 and 2022. But the station says the colors changed to make the maps easier to read -- not to exaggerate climate change

said in a July 27, 2022 email that, until the end of 2019, weather forecasts for Tagesthemen were prepared externally.

She told AFP:"The supplied temperature maps in the Tagesthemen session showed the temperature exclusively in numbers," with a green background regardless of temperature.In 2019, Tagesschau that it had manipulated its weather map to exaggerate the effects of climate change, arguing that"the coloring allows you to guess how high the temperatures will be, even where there is no number."HR told AFP on July 26 that when ARD's Weather Competence Center took over forecasts in January 2020, the design and presentation were standardized for both the Tagesschau and Tagesthemen programs.

The Tagesschau maps had shown temperature with color in addition to numbers for more than 30 years, HR said on July 27. "It is not a matter of alarmism, but of making the graphics as clear as possible so they can be grasped quickly," the broadcaster said.of misleading claims online, has two map formats to show weather: one that uses red shades and is focused only on temperature, and one that uses green and is a general forecast.

 

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German here. It's not even the same station! You can see the encircled '1' in the upper right for the first national chain and in the other screen the 'hr' in the upper left for the regional program for the state of Hesse.

It’s easier to read in green 😅

It doesn’t matter. Not even with a science major can conspiracy theorist understand the scientific method. It’s more than mere ignorance, it’s a psychiatric issue. It’s useless to argue with them, because they’re driven by this exaggerated fear of being fooled. They need meds.

Easier to read..lol

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