{"id":411459,"date":"2025-11-03T13:40:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T12:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=411459"},"modified":"2025-11-03T13:40:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T12:40:47","slug":"gloom-despair-and-agony-on-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=411459","title":{"rendered":"Gloom, Despair, and Agony on Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"659\" data-attachment-id=\"411474\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=411474\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AQNyTT3Nr0m6_WOQQnJbCa0GFQKWqd_ymU6L9zc5QOIcFfITLCY-Qw7DrggTbDGJpi_UysGHG8TO9DHxXf04yj69trhkOq1YkRCm6EfWIzIhLRFDu8oEcA2FmsHNBOI.jpeg?fit=1041%2C949&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1041,949\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"AQNyTT3Nr0m6_WOQQnJbCa0GFQKWqd_ymU6L9zc5QOIcFfITLCY-Qw7DrggTbDGJpi_UysGHG8TO9DHxXf04yj69trhkOq1YkRCm6EfWIzIhLRFDu8oEcA2FmsHNBOI\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AQNyTT3Nr0m6_WOQQnJbCa0GFQKWqd_ymU6L9zc5QOIcFfITLCY-Qw7DrggTbDGJpi_UysGHG8TO9DHxXf04yj69trhkOq1YkRCm6EfWIzIhLRFDu8oEcA2FmsHNBOI.jpeg?fit=723%2C659&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AQNyTT3Nr0m6_WOQQnJbCa0GFQKWqd_ymU6L9zc5QOIcFfITLCY-Qw7DrggTbDGJpi_UysGHG8TO9DHxXf04yj69trhkOq1YkRCm6EfWIzIhLRFDu8oEcA2FmsHNBOI.jpeg?resize=723%2C659&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"An artistic depiction of four scientists in lab coats praying or showing reverence, while a large, imposing figure representing a deity or supernatural being looms over them, holding a flaming globe. The background features smokestacks emitting pollution.\" class=\"wp-image-411474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AQNyTT3Nr0m6_WOQQnJbCa0GFQKWqd_ymU6L9zc5QOIcFfITLCY-Qw7DrggTbDGJpi_UysGHG8TO9DHxXf04yj69trhkOq1YkRCm6EfWIzIhLRFDu8oEcA2FmsHNBOI.jpeg?resize=1024%2C934&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AQNyTT3Nr0m6_WOQQnJbCa0GFQKWqd_ymU6L9zc5QOIcFfITLCY-Qw7DrggTbDGJpi_UysGHG8TO9DHxXf04yj69trhkOq1YkRCm6EfWIzIhLRFDu8oEcA2FmsHNBOI.jpeg?resize=300%2C273&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AQNyTT3Nr0m6_WOQQnJbCa0GFQKWqd_ymU6L9zc5QOIcFfITLCY-Qw7DrggTbDGJpi_UysGHG8TO9DHxXf04yj69trhkOq1YkRCm6EfWIzIhLRFDu8oEcA2FmsHNBOI.jpeg?resize=768%2C700&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AQNyTT3Nr0m6_WOQQnJbCa0GFQKWqd_ymU6L9zc5QOIcFfITLCY-Qw7DrggTbDGJpi_UysGHG8TO9DHxXf04yj69trhkOq1YkRCm6EfWIzIhLRFDu8oEcA2FmsHNBOI.jpeg?w=1041&amp;ssl=1 1041w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2025\/11\/01\/gloom-despair-and-agony-on-me\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=gloom-despair-and-agony-on-me\">Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/author\/jeeztheadmin\/\">Charles Rotter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Charles Rotter,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Note the highlighted name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"270\" data-attachment-id=\"411461\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=411461\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-55.png?fit=1289%2C482&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1289,482\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-55.png?fit=723%2C270&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-55.png?resize=723%2C270&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Screenshot of a journal article titled 'The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink', featuring highlighted names of the authors including Michael E Mann.\" class=\"wp-image-411461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-55.png?resize=1024%2C383&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-55.png?resize=300%2C112&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-55.png?resize=768%2C287&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-55.png?resize=1200%2C449&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-55.png?w=1289&amp;ssl=1 1289w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was a song that formed a repeated \u201cbit\u201d on the old&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hee_Haw\">Hee Haw<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;show that went:&nbsp;<em>\u201cGloom, despair, and agony on me \/ deep dark depression, excessive misery.\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;Every week, the cast would wail it between exaggerated groans before collapsing into laughter. The point was clear: when tragedy is performed loudly enough, it becomes comedy.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/bioscience\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/biosci\/biaf149\/8303627?login=false\">Reading the 2025&nbsp;<em>BioScience<\/em>&nbsp;special report,<\/a>&nbsp;\u201cThe State of the Climate: A Planet on the Brink,\u201d one hears that same tune\u2014only without the laugh track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are hurtling toward climate chaos. The planet\u2019s vital signs are flashing red. The consequences of human-driven alterations of the climate are no longer future threats but are here now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s the opening line, not of a movie trailer, but of a peer-reviewed paper. If the intent was to conjure images of dashboard lights blinking before the cosmic engine explodes, it succeeded. The trouble is, science is supposed to illuminate, not hallucinate. Instead of laying out data, this report launches straight into revelation. The planet is \u201con the brink.\u201d Humanity has \u201cfailed foresight.\u201d Only collective repentance can save us. Swap \u201ccarbon dioxide\u201d for \u201csin,\u201d and you have Sunday service at the Church of the Imminent Apocalypse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"723\" height=\"407\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-IIKE9p5SEw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The document is festooned with what it calls&nbsp;<em>vital signs<\/em>\u2014thirty-four in all, twenty-two allegedly \u201cat record levels.\u201d This impressive-sounding list includes everything from atmospheric CO\u2082 to livestock populations, as though the cows were personally responsible for dragging the planet into perdition. The report warns that in 2024, fossil-fuel energy consumption hit a record high, with coal, oil, and gas \u201call at peak levels,\u201d while solar and wind combined were \u201c31 times lower.\u201d One almost expects the next line to blame humanity for failing to meet its quota in a cosmic game of&nbsp;<em>SimCity: Gaia Edition.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A reader looking for proportion or uncertainty will search in vain. Each graph is accompanied by language worthy of a late-night infomercial for panic:&nbsp;<em>\u201cThe largest coral bleaching event ever recorded\u2026 Greenland and Antarctic ice mass at record lows\u2026 a dangerous hothouse Earth trajectory may now be more likely.\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;The cumulative effect is less scientific briefing than rolling thunder. If you scroll fast enough, you can practically hear the organ music swelling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDeadly and costly disasters surged\u2026 the California wildfires alone exceeding US $250 billion in damages\u2026 climate-linked disasters since 2000 globally reaching more than US $18 trillion.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Numbers this large tend to numb rather than inform. The paper never asks whether these price tags include ordinary economic inflation, population growth, or the modern habit of valuing every misfortune in billions. \u201cDisaster losses\u201d are assumed to prove climate deterioration the way medieval plagues once proved divine wrath. The possibility that richer societies simply have more assets to lose\u2014and thus higher accounting tallies\u2014is never entertained. The ledger of doom must balance on one side only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then there\u2019s the narrative sleight of hand: every short-term anomaly becomes an omen. A warm year? \u201cAccelerated warming.\u201d A cool one? \u201cMasked warming.\u201d Too much rain? Proof of \u201chydroclimatic whiplash.\u201d Too little? \u201cAccelerating drought.\u201d It\u2019s a marvel of elasticity. Whatever happens confirms the prophecy. Even the authors note that \u201cwarming may be accelerating, likely driven by reduced aerosol cooling, strong cloud feedbacks, and a darkening planet.\u201d Translation: because the air is now cleaner, the models say it should get hotter faster. So clean air is bad news too. One wonders if the only acceptable climate is the one we had on a Tuesday in 1979.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where the report truly leaves orbit is in its moral framing. Economic growth, it declares, is \u201clargely coupled with increased resource consumption, ecological degradation, and increased greenhouse gas emissions,\u201d and two-thirds of warming since 1990 is \u201cattributable to the wealthiest 10 percent.\u201d Having identified prosperity as a planetary pollutant, the authors pivot to redemption through \u201cpost-growth economic models that promote social equity.\u201d In the space of a paragraph,&nbsp;<em>BioScience<\/em>&nbsp;morphs into&nbsp;<em>Das Kapital with weather maps.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The list of recommended cures reads like the minutes from a global-governance workshop: phase out fossil fuels, overhaul consumption, \u201cstabilize the human population through the empowerment of girls and women,\u201d and pursue \u201cecological and socially just climate mitigation pathways.\u201d Somewhere between the \u201csystems change\u201d and \u201cbroader societal transformation,\u201d one can hear the bureaucratic gears grinding. It\u2019s all very earnest\u2014and utterly detached from the realities of energy demand, human aspiration, or physics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTransformative change is needed to address ecological overshoot and the worsening climate emergency\u2026 adopting economic models that prioritize well-being, equity, and sustainability over perpetual growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s the crux: growth itself is the villain. Not poorly designed policies, not inefficient technology, not corruption or incompetence\u2014growth. The same phenomenon that lifted billions out of poverty, extended lifespans, and allowed societies to afford environmental protection is now treated as a sin against Gaia. It\u2019s the inverse of progress: the conviction that salvation lies in less of everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The irony, of course, is that this sermon is delivered via the most energy-intensive information network in human history. The servers hosting the&nbsp;<em>BioScience<\/em>&nbsp;site hum on fossil-generated electricity; the readers scrolling through its PDFs are likely doing so on lithium-mined devices shipped across oceans on bunker-fuelled freighters. Yet within the text, the only villains are power plants, hamburgers, and human ambition. The authors speak of \u201csystems change\u201d as though civilization were a light switch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It would be comic if it weren\u2019t so serious\u2014because policy makers actually treat documents like this as evidence. When&nbsp;<em>BioScience<\/em>&nbsp;prints \u201cthe window to prevent the worst outcomes is rapidly closing,\u201d ministries translate that into trillion-dollar programs and rationed energy. They never notice that the same paper admits, a few pages later, that much of the observed warming may be due to \u201ca large cloud feedback\u201d and \u201cdecreasing emissions of aerosols that mask warming\u201d\u2014in other words, factors poorly captured in models. Uncertainty is smuggled in, then buried under headlines about record heat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The contrast between rhetoric and reality would make even the&nbsp;<em>Hee Haw<\/em>&nbsp;gang pause. At least their \u201cGloom and despair\u201d was sung in harmony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cExtreme weather is becoming more frequent, intense, and costly. The evidence is overwhelming.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So begins the report\u2019s chapter on climate impacts. \u201cOverwhelming,\u201d indeed\u2014but only if one defines evidence as anecdote with a press release. A long catalogue follows typhoons, floods, wildfires, hurricanes, heat waves\u2014each tragic in its own right but arranged here like exhibits in a traveling show titled\u00a0<em>The Wrath of Carbon.<\/em>\u00a0It\u2019s an impressive list, though it resembles a disaster insurance ledger more than a scientific analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Table 1.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recent climate-related disasters since September 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th><strong>Event category<\/strong><\/th><th><strong>Event<\/strong><\/th><th><strong>Date<\/strong><\/th><th><strong>Description<\/strong><\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Wildfires<\/td><td>California wildfires<\/td><td>January 2025<\/td><td>Wildfires burned more than 57,000 acres, caused at least US$250 billion in economic damages and losses, killed at least 30 people, damaged thousands of structures, and forced nearly 200,000 people to evacuate across the Los Angeles region.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Japan and South Korea wildfires<\/td><td>March 2025<\/td><td>Wildfires burned 370\u202fhectares in Japan and more than 48,000\u202fhectares in South Korea, injuring 2 people, killing 32 people in South Korea, damaging homes, and prompting mass evacuations and emergency response.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Canada Wildfires<\/td><td>May 2025<\/td><td>One of Canada\u2019s most intense early season wildfire outbreaks burned over 1.58 million hectares and forced 17,000 evacuations.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Heavy precipitation<\/td><td>Typhoon Yagi<a href=\"javascript:;\">*<\/a><\/td><td>September 2024<\/td><td>Typhoon Yagi brought deadly flooding, landslides, and extreme winds to Vietnam and surrounding countries, resulting in an estimated 844 deaths, 2279 injuries, and over US$14.7 billion in damages.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Storm Boris<\/td><td>September 2024<\/td><td>Storm Boris caused severe flooding, 27 deaths, and widespread power outages across Central and Eastern Europe, with rainfall up to four times the monthly average and economic damages likely exceeding US$2.2 billion.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Japan Floods<\/td><td>September 2024<\/td><td>Record-breaking rainfall in Ishikawa triggered deadly floods and landslides, killing six, leaving ten missing, flooding thousands of homes, and isolating over 100 communities.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Hurricane Helene<a href=\"javascript:;\">*<\/a><\/td><td>September 2024<\/td><td>Hurricane Helene caused catastrophic flooding and wind damage across six southeastern US states, leading to 251 deaths and US$78.7 billion in damages.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Storm Kirk<a href=\"javascript:;\">*<\/a><\/td><td>October 2024<\/td><td>Storm Kirk brought widespread flooding and wind damage across western and northern France, with gusts up to 211\u202fkilometers per hour and rainfall near 90 millimeters in a few hours; it resulted in one death and roughly US$110 million in economic losses in Western Europe.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Hurricane Milton<a href=\"javascript:;\">*<\/a><\/td><td>October 2024<\/td><td>With peak rainfall near 19 inches and winds reaching 160 kilometers per hour at landfall,<br>Hurricane Milton caused roughly US$34.3 billion in damages and killed 45 people, primarily in Florida, United States.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Italy Multiple Floods<\/td><td>October 2024<\/td><td>Severe floods across multiple Italian regions caused infrastructure damage, over 3000 evacuations, and at least one fatality amid extreme rainfall and flash floods.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>South-East Spain Floods<\/td><td>October 2024<\/td><td>Catastrophic flooding, extreme rainfall, hail, and tornadoes in southeastern Spain caused over 200 deaths and billions in damages.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Colombia Floods<\/td><td>November 2024<\/td><td>Severe flooding along Colombia\u2019s Pacific coast affected 188,000 people in Choc\u00f3, triggered a nationwide emergency, and caused a major humanitarian crisis.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Storm Darragh<\/td><td>December 2024<\/td><td>Storm Darragh brought hurricane-force winds, widespread power outages, major transport disruptions, and two fatalities across Ireland and the United Kingdom.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Cyclone Chido<a href=\"javascript:;\">*<\/a><\/td><td>December 2024<\/td><td>Cyclone Chido caused catastrophic damage in and near Southeast Africa, injuring 6534 people and resulting in at least 172 deaths and more than US$681 million in damages.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Storm \u00c9owyn<a href=\"javascript:;\">*<\/a><\/td><td>January 2025<\/td><td>Storm \u00c9owyn caused widespread power outages, severe property damage, and two fatalities across Ireland and the UK due to extreme winds and heavy rainfall.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Queensland Flood<\/td><td>February 2025<\/td><td>Severe flooding in Queensland inundated homes and businesses, cut power to thousands, forced mass evacuations, and led to at least one fatality.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Cyclone Zelia<a href=\"javascript:;\">*<\/a><\/td><td>February 2025<\/td><td>Cyclone Zelia brought destructive 320 kilometer per hour winds, over 400\u202fmillimeters per day of rain, and flash flooding in Western Australia, causing US$733 million in damages.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Cyclone Alfred<a href=\"javascript:;\">*<\/a><\/td><td>March 2025<\/td><td>Cyclone Alfred caused power outages, school closures, evacuations, and flooding across eastern Australia, severely disrupting daily life and resulting in US$820 million in economic losses.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Argentina Floods<\/td><td>March 2025<\/td><td>Over 400 millimeters of rain in 8 hours caused catastrophic flooding in Bah\u00eda Blanca, killing 17, and resulting in US$400 million in infrastructure damage, and overwhelming homes, hospitals, and drainage systems.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Cyclades Storm<\/td><td>March 2025<\/td><td>Severe storms caused widespread flooding, infrastructure damage, and vehicle rescues across multiple Greek islands, with Paros, Mykonos, and Chania among the hardest hit.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>DR Congo Floods<\/td><td>May 2025<\/td><td>Severe flooding in South Kivu caused the Kasaba River to overflow, isolating communities and resulting in around 100 confirmed fatalities amid difficult rescue conditions.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>New South Wales Floods<\/td><td>May 2025<\/td><td>Severe flooding submerged roads and homes, broke rainfall records, isolated communities, killed five people, and forced evacuations across parts of New South Wales, especially around Lismore and Taree.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Texas Floods<\/td><td>July 2025<\/td><td>A catastrophic overnight flash flood in Central Texas, in the United States, killed at least 135 people, and became one of the deadliest single-night disasters in state history.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>High temperatures<\/td><td>India and Pakistan Heatwave<\/td><td>April 2025<\/td><td>The heatwave brought extreme temperatures up to 49\u00b0C, widespread power outages, crop failures, and severe health impacts across India and Pakistan, especially among vulnerable populations.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Western European Heatwave<\/td><td>June 2025<\/td><td>An intense early season heatwave brought record-breaking temperatures to parts of western and southern Europe. It was part of a broader European heatwave where climate change resulted in an estimated 1500 additional deaths in 12 European cities between 23 June and 2 July.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td>Eastern US Heatwave<\/td><td>June 2025<\/td><td>A record-breaking heatwave across the eastern United States caused infrastructure failures, widespread power outages, and hundreds of cases of heat-related illness.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>*&nbsp;Note:&nbsp;We list numerous recent disasters that may be at least partly related to climate change. Disaster descriptions are primarily based on the ones provided in the Climameter hazards database (ClimaMeter&nbsp;2025). Links to Climameter attribution analyses are given in the \u201cEvent\u201d column of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/view-large\/[XSLTImagePath]\">supplemental table S2<\/a>. Where applicable, we have updated the disaster impacts (the \u201cDescription\u201d column) using news and other sources as was indicated with hyperlinks in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/view-large\/[XSLTImagePath]\">table S2<\/a>. Information on the Climameter methodology is given in Faranda and colleagues (2024). This list of disasters is not intended to be exhaustive. Events labelled with an asterisk also involve strong winds. Some of these climate disasters may be at least partly related to changes in jet streams (Stendel et&nbsp;al.&nbsp;2021, Rousi et&nbsp;al.&nbsp;2022).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/bioscience\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/biosci\/biaf149\/8303627?login=false\">https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/bioscience\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/biosci\/biaf149\/8303627?login=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pattern is familiar. Every headline-grabbing event becomes proof of a trend. A single hot summer in Europe becomes evidence of \u201chydroclimatic whiplash\u201d; one hurricane season suggests \u201cescalating risk.\u201d The text never pauses to mention that global disaster mortality has declined over the past century or that human resilience\u2014better infrastructure, early warning systems, sanitation\u2014has made the world far safer despite population growth. That omission would have disrupted the mood, and mood is the currency of this document.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe tendency for the stationary meanders in the summer jet stream that favor persistent weather patterns \u2026 has almost tripled since the 1950s.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The phrasing evokes a planet lurching out of control, though the source material\u2014climate-model simulations of jet-stream variability\u2014is a statistical field where \u201ctripled\u201d can mean anything from a genuine shift to a quirk of how one defines a \u201cmeander.\u201d The paper frames this as a new revelation rather than one more working hypothesis among dozens. It\u2019s good copy, less good climatology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this genre, uncertainty is treated not as an integral part of science but as a marketing problem. Where the data are thin, the prose compensates. When the authors admit that \u201cthese prolonged and intensifying water extremes are likely driven primarily by rising global temperatures,\u201d the word \u201clikely\u201d is a fig leaf. In scientific writing, \u201clikely\u201d can mean anywhere between 55 and 80 percent probability. In public imagination, it reads as \u201ccertain.\u201d The ambiguity serves its purpose: to convey crisis without the burden of precision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next comes the \u201ctipping point\u201d liturgy\u2014the notion that one invisible threshold stands between us and planetary collapse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA dangerous hothouse Earth trajectory may now be more likely due to accelerated warming, self-reinforcing feedbacks, and tipping points.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A \u201ctrajectory\u201d toward a \u201chothouse Earth\u201d sounds cinematic. In practice, it\u2019s a cluster of model assumptions stacked atop other assumptions: if warming continues, if feedbacks amplify, if mitigation fails, then maybe Earth shifts to a new equilibrium. Each \u201cif\u201d is replaced by certainty through repetition. The report doesn\u2019t just warn about tipping points; it invokes them, as if uttering the phrase could summon catastrophe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To its credit, the paper includes caveats\u2014buried deep enough to require archaeological patience. It notes that \u201cimpacts on biodiversity are highly uncertain,\u201d that \u201cfreshwater changes are accelerating in scope\u201d but difficult to quantify, and that \u201cthe Atlantic overturning circulation is showing signs of significant weakening.\u201d In plain English: we have interesting signals, but not much causal proof. Yet the prose swiftly leaps from \u201csigns\u201d to \u201cemerging evidence,\u201d from \u201cemerging evidence\u201d to \u201ccollapse could trigger abrupt and irreversible climate disruptions.\u201d By the end of the paragraph, \u201ccould\u201d has evolved into \u201cwill.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s the same narrative structure used in ghost stories: footsteps, suspicion, apparition, doom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then comes the human-interest angle. The authors write:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are disproportionately harming the vulnerable and marginalized\u2014those least responsible for the crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a morally virtuous line, but not a scientific one. It conflates cause with consequence. The poor do suffer more from weather disasters\u2014but primarily because they are poor, not because the weather itself has become a sentient agent of inequality. The solution to vulnerability is wealth, infrastructure, and technology\u2014exactly the things the report elsewhere condemns as \u201coverconsumption.\u201d One cannot both decry economic growth and mourn its absence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The closing sections move from alarm to prescription, proposing \u201ctransformative change\u201d and \u201csocial tipping points\u201d that would usher in a post-growth utopia. In another context, this might be presented as political philosophy. Here, it\u2019s packaged as empirical necessity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEven small, sustained nonviolent movements can shift public norms and policy, highlighting a vital path forward amid political gridlock.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Translation: science recommends activism. The boundaries between laboratory and legislature dissolve; the scientist becomes the strategist. Yet, for all its talk of \u201csystems change,\u201d the report never details who decides which systems to change, or how a planet of eight billion diverse opinions will vote on a single thermostat setting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mood crescendo continues until the finale:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are entering a period where only bold, coordinated action can prevent catastrophic outcomes. \u2026 Delay only increases the human and environmental toll.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every apocalypse needs a deadline. The rhetoric of last chances keeps the audience tuned in, just as it has since the first \u201cTen Years to Save the Planet\u201d headline appeared decades ago. That deadline has been repeatedly reset, with no refund offered for missed predictions. Yet the sense of emergency must persist, or the narrative collapses under its own weight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the end, the State of the Climate report reads less like a diagnosis and more like a mood board\u2014its charts, tables, and color gradients arranged to evoke dread rather than understanding. The data themselves are valuable; the problem lies in the translation from measurement to meaning. Where uncertainty should inspire curiosity, it inspires panic. Where nuance should guide debate, it\u2019s sanded away for clarity\u2019s sake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Science becomes sermon, and the faithful nod along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"520\" height=\"520\" data-attachment-id=\"411470\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=411470\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-58.png?fit=520%2C520&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"520,520\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-58.png?fit=520%2C520&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-58.png?resize=520%2C520&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Graph depicting global mean surface temperature (\u00b0C) relative to pre-industrial levels, showing fluctuating temperatures over 10,000 years, with a sharp increase noted in the current century and future warming projections for 2100 under current policies.\" class=\"wp-image-411470\" style=\"width:560px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-58.png?w=520&amp;ssl=1 520w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-58.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-58.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-58.png?resize=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-58.png?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-58.png?resize=450%2C450&amp;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-58.png?resize=60%2C60&amp;ssl=1 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Figure 3.<br>Approximate global average temperature from \u20139340 BCE to 2020 CE. Bands around time series indicate the standard deviation. The projection of roughly 3.1\u00b0C peak warming by 2100 is from UNEP (<a href=\"javascript:;\">2024<\/a>). See the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/oup.silverchair-cdn.com\/oup\/backfile\/Content_public\/Journal\/bioscience\/PAP\/10.1093_biosci_biaf149\/2\/biaf149_supplemental_files.zip?Expires=1764959066&amp;Signature=iRodYasbs4pLrjpmJbftnfTCDkuobCjXTyYEJwSQXOJhha3SH5Iz749R-vS1v0E~rZZElXLMjF5RoJNPd3uYRhm~EBpxDvjaWQUfV8G0c9mIHVa4quLSDDIJ5F-QL6Fa1PqaH0vgNqnWwei9FTCGEWE8sgYawNXA1IgBGlNOcG50UIQzmaU53CbGvR4aKMQ62jfMBeSsBx3SLencCcppjmWu7UUfTrsB1d~CrNBSQw1M3DN2uqMZHR3kRi4r0i3GMwEPGXVF3VNMrNAocQQ8G5zqQVBj5g~~6mAUM9klzcT37qWc4vU9BPmO3QCtf0kxH75C1hcCxLRTKCPMKFuFCQ__&amp;Key-Pair-Id=APKAIE5G5CRDK6RD3PGA\">supplemental methods<\/a>\u00a0and data sources section for additional information.<\/em><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/bioscience\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/biosci\/biaf149\/8303627?login=false\"><em>https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/bioscience\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/biosci\/biaf149\/8303627<\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every drama needs a finale, and this report delivers one worthy of Broadway. It closes with a vision of humanity teetering on the edge of self-inflicted ruin unless it embraces \u201ctransformative change.\u201d The word appears repeatedly, as though repetition itself could bring transformation about. The authors call for a \u201cstrategy that embeds climate resilience into national defense and foreign policy frameworks\u201d and for \u201caligning human civilization with the limits of the Earth\u2019s natural systems.\u201d In other words, to save ourselves, we must redesign everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is a peculiar paradox of our age that the same institutions that cannot maintain potholes now promise to calibrate the climate. Governments are urged to restructure economies, diets, and even family planning\u2014all in service to an atmospheric target that shifts each decade. The&nbsp;<em>State of the Climate<\/em>&nbsp;report treats this as self-evident: if a problem is planetary, then control must be planetary too. What begins as ecology ends as bureaucracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cClimate policy must be consistent with what is scientifically and ethically required, regardless of political concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At first glance, that sounds noble. On reflection, it\u2019s chilling. \u201cRegardless of political concerns\u201d means regardless of voters, budgets, or unintended consequences. Once science is declared the sole source of ethics, disagreement becomes heresy. The climate debate is not improved by turning it into a priesthood of models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The paper\u2019s appeal to \u201cjustice\u201d completes the transformation. Inequality, overconsumption, and population growth all merge into one composite villain: humanity itself. To redeem the species, the report prescribes \u201cpostgrowth economic models,\u201d \u201cplant-based diets,\u201d and \u201cempowerment\u201d schemes designed to stabilize population. It\u2019s an ambitious plan\u2014global austerity with a smile. The irony is that such prescriptions would most harm the very people they claim to protect. Cheap energy, economic growth, and modern agriculture are not threats to human welfare; they are its preconditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rhetorical trick is familiar. First, describe ordinary weather as catastrophe. Second, describe ordinary prosperity as guilt. Finally, offer extraordinary control as salvation. The sequence is as old as politics. The difference is that this time, it\u2019s wrapped in the language of peer review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even the report\u2019s graphs participate in the theater. The time-series figures rise like seismograph needles of divine judgment. Every line is a slope, every slope a prophecy. The captions warn of \u201crecord highs,\u201d but in a dataset only decades long, \u201crecord\u201d can mean \u201cslightly above last year.\u201d The audience isn\u2019t told that previous warm intervals\u2014Roman, Medieval, Holocene\u2014were equally dramatic without triggering collapse. Perspective is the first casualty of crisis communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report\u2019s refrain\u2014\u201cThe window to prevent the worst outcomes is rapidly closing\u201d\u2014is not new. It has appeared, in almost identical form, in declarations dating back to the early 1990s. Each closing window gives birth to a new deadline, and each missed deadline brings a new round of headlines about closing windows. It\u2019s the renewable energy of alarmism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One could almost admire the consistency if it weren\u2019t so counterproductive. Constant emergency rhetoric numbs the public and erodes trust in genuine scientific inquiry. If every fluctuation is apocalypse, none is. Meanwhile, real environmental issues that could be managed\u2014pollution, habitat loss, resource misuse\u2014are crowded out by the endless campaign to recalibrate planetary thermostats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe future is still being written,\u201d the report concludes, urging readers to \u201cembrace[ing] our shared humanity and recognize the profound interconnectedness of all life on the planet.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s a fine sentiment, and one hopes it\u2019s true. But the rest of the text suggests the authors already know how the story must end and who must direct it. \u201cShared humanity\u201d sounds warm until it becomes a policy mandate to share someone else\u2019s energy bills, diet, and standard of living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Science at its best is a method, not a movement. It works through doubt, replication, and humility\u2014qualities notably absent from the literature of crisis. When a field begins to speak in the language of certainty and moral urgency, it steps into the realm of persuasion. That\u2019s not inherently wrong; persuasion has its place. But it should be recognized for what it is: advocacy, not analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There will always be droughts, floods, storms, and seasons hotter or colder than we expect. What matters is our capacity to adapt, not our capacity to despair. The&nbsp;<em>BioScience<\/em>&nbsp;report invites the world to measure virtue by anxiety, to equate fear with foresight. Yet history suggests the opposite: societies that thrive are those that refuse to surrender to panic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If there\u2019s a lesson in all this, it\u2019s that the planet\u2019s \u201cvital signs\u201d are not the only ones worth monitoring. The pulse of reason, too, deserves attention. When it flatlines under the weight of hyperbole, science itself is the patient in distress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So perhaps the right song for the next climate summit isn\u2019t a hymn of doom but a refrain from&nbsp;<em>Hee Haw<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cGloom, despair, and agony on me\u2014<br>If it weren\u2019t for bad luck, I\u2019d have no luck at all.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The line was meant as a joke. Reading this latest report, one suspects it wasn\u2019t far from the truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Addendum:&nbsp;<\/strong>Michael Mann isn\u2019t happy that in this time of government shutdown, Democrat and Republican infighting, Bill Gates backpedaling, and much much more in this news cycle, that no one cares about his latest sky-is-falling screed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Michael Mann is learning a harsh reality as he becomes ever-more irrelevant.<br><br>Nobody in the general public cares about scientific papers. It is just stamp collecting for academics, who have lost any semblance of credibility. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VmgnjGLoY4\">https:\/\/t.co\/VmgnjGLoY4<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Chris Martz (@ChrisMartzWX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisMartzWX\/status\/1984420510328119762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a song that formed a repeated \u201cbit\u201d on the old\u00a0Hee Haw\u00a0show that went:\u00a0\u201cGloom, despair, and agony on me \/ deep dark depression, excessive misery.\u201d\u00a0Every week, the cast would wail it between exaggerated groans before collapsing into laughter. The point was clear: when tragedy is performed loudly enough, it becomes comedy.\u00a0Reading the 2025\u00a0BioScience\u00a0special report,\u00a0\u201cThe State of the Climate: A Planet on the Brink,\u201d one hears that same tune\u2014only without the laugh track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":411474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"Explore the alarmist rhetoric of the 2025 climate report that highlights human-driven chaos and fails to capture scientific nuance.","jetpack_seo_html_title":"The Climate Crisis: A Review of Alarmist Narratives and Data","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691829997,691837089,691819743,691822069,691818228,691839291],"class_list":{"0":"post-411459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-carbon-dioxide-co","9":"tag-climate-doom-agenda","10":"tag-climate-propaganda","11":"tag-extreme-weather-disaster","12":"tag-fossil-fuels","13":"tag-trillion-dollar-programs","15":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AQNyTT3Nr0m6_WOQQnJbCa0GFQKWqd_ymU6L9zc5QOIcFfITLCY-Qw7DrggTbDGJpi_UysGHG8TO9DHxXf04yj69trhkOq1YkRCm6EfWIzIhLRFDu8oEcA2FmsHNBOI.jpeg?fit=1041%2C949&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1J2r","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":411504,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=411504","url_meta":{"origin":411459,"position":0},"title":"Michael Mann: \u201cI\u2019m Not Owned! I\u2019m Not Owned!!\u201d \u2013 As He Shrinks into a Corn Cob","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"04\/11\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"If you\u2019ve been following the climate circus for as long as we have here at WUWT, you know that Michael Mann \u2013 the self-proclaimed guardian of the infamous \u201chockey stick\u201d graph \u2013 has been skating on thin ice for years. 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His argument, unsurprisingly, is that nuclear power is the solution to clean and better energy and it\u2019s been staring everyone in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"carbon dioxide (CO\u2082)\"","block_context":{"text":"carbon dioxide (CO\u2082)","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=carbon-dioxide-co%e2%82%82"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0Screenshot-2025-06-16-110933.jpeg?fit=1200%2C621&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0Screenshot-2025-06-16-110933.jpeg?fit=1200%2C621&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0Screenshot-2025-06-16-110933.jpeg?fit=1200%2C621&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0Screenshot-2025-06-16-110933.jpeg?fit=1200%2C621&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0Screenshot-2025-06-16-110933.jpeg?fit=1200%2C621&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":262703,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=262703","url_meta":{"origin":411459,"position":5},"title":"Epic Fail in America\u2019s Heartland: Climate Models Greatly Overestimate Corn Belt Warming","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"18\/06\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"For the last decade I\u2019ve been providing long-range U.S. Corn Belt forecasts to a company that monitors and forecasts global grain production and market forces. 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