Meteorologists Get Death Threats as Hurricane Milton Conspiracy Theories Thrive

[riversedge]

Source: yahoo.com



Lorena O'Neil Wed, October 9, 2024 at 4:40 PM CDT


As Hurricane Milton approaches Florida, meteorologists are staying awake for days at a time trying to get vital, life-saving information out to the folks who will be affected. That’s their job. But this year, several of them tell Rolling Stone, they’re increasingly having to take time out to quell the nonstop flow of misinformation during a particularly traumatic hurricane season. And some of them are doing it while being personally threatened.

“People are just so far gone, it’s honestly making me lose all faith in humanity,” says Washington D.C.-based meteorologist Matthew Cappucci, in a phone interview conducted while he was traveling down to Florida for the storm. “There’s so much bad information floating around out there that the good information has become obscured.”

Cappucci says that he’s noticed an enormous change on social media in the last three months: “Seemingly overnight, ideas that once would have been ridiculed as very fringe, outlandish viewpoints are suddenly becoming mainstream and it’s making my job much more difficult.”

He says meteorologists and disaster relief experts have to strike a balance between putting out helpful, high-quality information while also squashing misinformation. “Nowadays, there’s so much bad information out there that if we spent our time getting rid of it, we’d have no more time.”....................

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What the F is wrong with people!!



Hurricane Milton live updates: Monster storm makes landfall near Siesta Key, Florida https://nbcnews.com/weather/hurricanes/live-blog/hurricane-milton-live-updates-rcna174774 via @nbcnews

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[Stargazer99]

1. It is time to make threatening people painful-there is no damn excuse for this crap

[ailsagirl]

4. Damn right!!!!!!!!!!

[slightlv]

6. Seems like so many of their DNS' could be traced and these people found.

Then file charges of issuing threats, as that what all this misinformation and disinformation amounts to... and, to the meteorologists and others it's the literal truth. To get a final handle on all these horrible magas, we're going to have to get down and dirty mean, as far as they're concerned. Free speech may have to be amended (if necessary) to NOT encompass freedom to spout any specious, dangerous, threatening thing you want to spew. Other countries (like England) don't have unlimited free speech, and they don't seem to have a problem there with it. Germany, too... although I've wondered how they're neo-nazi's and Bannon followers have been getting away with it recently.

I've had enough. In order to get society back to being a civil society, I'm willing to not yell death threats at my neighbor... even those he's an awful neighbor with a very small yippy dog that yips all night and day, yet HE called the cops on my big dog that barked for 10 minutes until I heard him. He also threatened to shoot one of my cats, and I haven't seen the cat he let run around in the neighborhood for months (a lilac point Siamese, if you can believe that!). Yes, maga or not, I hate that neighbor with every ounce of my being. He's an awful man with an anger management problem. But I'll forego not dissing him to his face if it means we could get something like that to bring back civil discourse in this country!

[calimary]

14. Well, at least you can vent it all here.

You can get it all off your chest, and there’s always a chance that somebody here will read it and maybe-just-maybe know something about it or have insights or experience in doing something about it. You just never know.

And at the very least, you’ll have DONE SOMETHING, even if only to get the issue in question off chest.

[slightlv]

17. I just know they sure had no problems finding and going after

all the "pirating music" individuals back a couple of decades ago... and our tech is a lot more developed now!

[tonekat]

2. They keep getting away with it too

Their brains don't work, so they have to make threats that go against the bubble they live in.

If these people are getting caught and prosecuted, I would certainly like to hear of it. But I have a feeling it's not as many as it should be.

[LudwigPastorius]

3. After the COVID "vaccines are computer chips activated by Bill Gates using 5G", horse paste "cures", etc.,...

absolutely no level of insane stupidity surprises me any more.

I mean, Donald fucking Trump is running neck and neck for the presidency with an intelligent, empathetic, competent, experienced, and decisive candidate right now.

[Ray Bruns]

20. I was really looking forward to becoming magnetic.

I’ve had numerous Covid vaccines and I am still not magnetic. Really pisses me off some days.

[Dave Bowman]

27. Yeah, I feel so cheated.

[Lilithschyld]

5. Lives are at stake here, what is wrong with people these days? nt

[Hassler]

7. This is the disinformation threat Hillary warned us about.

It's 'But Her Emails' 2024. Russia is coordinating with their asset -- in Don Old J Felon's case, Ass Hat

[orangecrush]

25. This x 1,000,000

[Wednesdays]

8. Disinformation? About a storm that hadn't hit yet? What kind of disinformation?

Like, Milton won't make landfall in Florida? That it isn't a major storm?


People are just cuckoo sometimes.

[Lucky Luciano]

22. Disinformation includes the government creating the storm.

Like they made it so the storm destroyed a town near a big lithium deposit so a mining company can take over the town from good god fearing (white) christian Americans.

Really cuckoo bananas stuff. Darwin should have removed these people long ago. This is the best evidence against evolution so far.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

9. Some may be so locked on to CC denial that these devastating hurricanes are

Making them resort to this insanity. They say the truth hurts. Clearly they can't handle the truth.

[soldierant]

10. Way, waw, WAY back in the day

like in ancient Greece and Rome and medieval times, kings were known to literally "kill the messenger" who brought bad news. I though humanity had gotten beyond that stage, I guess not.

[littlemissmartypants]

12. Great point, soldierant. ❤️

[BlueSpot]

11. How do you get through this?

How did Nazi Germany get through this? Not an historian but it seems like the same sort of garbage.

[Marcuse]

23. Antifa got Germany though Nazism.

[littlemissmartypants]

13. There are ...

enough tech savvy young people alive today with big hearts and good intentions. So, someone needs to start a new industry. Identify these freaks and turn them over for a fee. $$$

Doesn't the USA have a misinformation task force now?

Companies need to create a new job, misinformation office. Let them contact LE/FBI...Whoever!!

What the heck!!!

[yonder]

15. These days, it seems too many knuckleheads with a keyboard are "scientists"

with the results of their "research" loudly published by their nose in your face, a greasy-fingered poke in the chest or worse.

[angrychair]

16. Society has gone to far down the rabbit hole

I honestly don't know if what we have is worth saving.

We have a sitting vice president, one of the most experienced elected official to ever run for president. Competent and caring and incredibly intelligent. She reached a billion dollars in donations faster than any candidate in history. She literally has Dick Fucking Cheney openly advocating for her and publicly saying he will vote for her.

On their side is a convicted felon and rapist and fraud that was more than willing to let an angry mob kill his own VP. An angry mob he ginned up himself. A man that personally friends or associates with more pedophiles and child sex traffickers than just regular people I've known in my whole life. A guy that openly courts dictators and despots.

Despite all that those things in favor of VP Harris and all those negatives against TSF, the election is so close no one can say with any confidence they know what is going to happen on election night.

People are selfish, willfully ignorant, racist, misogynistic and incredibly crude.
Because of all that, from "weather machines" to the TSF, Im not convinced it's worth saving at all.

[Old Crank]

18. Charge as many as they can find.

Drag them in to court. Even wihout a trial the retainers for the lawyers will sting.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

19. Matthew Cappucci is part of the Capital Weather Gang at The Washington Post.

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Matthew Cappucci

Washington, D.C.
Meteorologist, Capital Weather Gang
Education: Harvard University, B.A. Atmospheric Sciences

Matthew Cappucci is a meteorologist for Capital Weather Gang. He earned a B.A. in atmospheric sciences from Harvard University in 2019, and has contributed to The Washington Post since he was 18. A Cape Cod native, Cappucci's fascination of weather traces all the way back to when he was 2 years old and trying to pronounce "wind meter." At 7, he saved his money to purchase a video camera, routinely running outdoors during summertime thunderstorms to capture bolts of lightning on film. When he was 14, Cappucci became the youngest-ever presenter at the American Meteorological Society, where he delivered an abstract on "outflow boundary-related waterspouts." Cappucci matriculated to Harvard in 2015, where he designed and implemented the first undergraduate education in atmospheric sciences. His course load required dual enrollment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While in college, Cappucci began freelancing with the Capital Weather Gang during his sophomore year. An avid adventurer, Cappucci logged over 120,000 miles during his senior year, including travels on the Great Plains to intercept tornadoes, trips to China to deliver presentations on weather and a jaunt to Chile for a total solar eclipse. When not in the office, Cappucci can be found staring at the sky, hopping aboard an airplane or chasing the next storm.

Languages spoken in addition to English: English, Spanish

[AngryOldDem]

21. What's wrong with them? TRUMP!

The man is truly an existential threat.

[republianmushroom]

24. Talk about dumb and dumber.

[Quiet Em]

26. That's insane.

What on earth do they think they're accomplishing with this behavior?

[Dem4life1234]

28. This country is filled with trash

So over it..

I really find these humans disgusting.

What gets me, they deem others violent when they are violent thugs themselves.

[mainer]

29. "Do your research!" Said a meteorologist's mom

A meteorologist whose field is the study of hurricanes tweeted that his own mom told him he needed to do his research because hurricanes are now man made. In a replay of COVID, experts in the field are being attacked by their own MAGA family members.