"Blunt," as in stupid, dull, simple-minded, inaccurate? Like that?
It's all of the things you mention but it's primarily part of the Obama propaganda campaign to spook the public leading up to the big Global Warming conference in Paris this November. In the coming months you'll see many more such Ecopolypse lies from the warm-mongers, domestic and foreign, as our Marxist President plans to cap his legacy with a global agreement that will destroy American capitalism.
Six figure salary out of our pockets to misinform the public on what weather is. Pretty good gig I suppose?