This month’s open thread. Please try and stay focused on substance rather than personalities. There are many real issues that are particularly salient this month, and so maybe we can collectively try not to have the comments descend into tedium.
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Our planet is warming TWICE as fast as we thought! [ref: Rahmstorf Foster March 2025 – https://assets-eu.researchsquare.com/files/rs-6079807/v1_covered_209e5182-d9a5-4305-a4e0-70204151d2b3.pdf ]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-pZNRN4XAE [also, intriguing Potholer on Thunberg cite of Kevin Anderson misquoted by the likes of Tucker Carlson to discredit her – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVZiKGjl6RY ]
from comments: “The spreadsheet says it’s cheaper to go extinct than to deal with climate stuff.”
Stefan Rahmstorf: The northern Atlantic ‘cold blob’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy2kBPujc4w