The reason the messaging changed was precisely because “it will get a few °C hotter” was not nuanced enough. While true, it neither laid out the actual problems (extremes get more extreme, weather gets less predictable, fires become more common) nor looked true to laymen (“but it’s cold out now!”).
> First it was everything will get hotter, then it was the climate will change, now it’s weather events will get more spectacular.
The problem was thinking people cared about the first two. They’re both true but only “every few years a natural disaster will wipe a town off the map” seems to get people interested.
> First it was everything will get hotter, then it was the climate will change, now it’s weather events will get more spectacular.
The problem was thinking people cared about the first two. They’re both true but only “every few years a natural disaster will wipe a town off the map” seems to get people interested.