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		lazide on July 4, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Alaska Rivers Are Turning an Eerie Orange Yup, it could also be new and a sign of an actual increasing problem! We can’t tell from this one data point, but as you note they need the clicks. Fear sells.

squircle on July 4, 2024 [–]

Fear sells indeed. We also have many more data points than were previously available. The problem, realistically, is discerning the signal in the noise and making out the meaning.

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