The 966 Germans were asked how they felt. They told them. The feelings went into the model, the model made numbers, the numbers went into the journal, and everyone got paid, the survey panel included. And that, as far as I can tell, is the rest of the story.

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The paper does not consider whether being scared shitless is a sound foundation for professional conduct.

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Claim: social isolation compounds mortality risk during climate events.

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The "most significant development in climate research in decades," has an ugly side.

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Evolution in car design, or climate change - YOU PICK THE WINNER.

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Ocean circulation is a coupled system. Change one gateway, and you risk...well, anything.

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Weather hasn’t become more extreme in cocoa growing regions and production and yields remain high. Accordingly, Euro News has done their Easter-candy loving audience a disservice by blaming the increased price of chocolate on climate change, when they instead could have given them an interesting and informative lesson in how volatile agriculture is—especially the kind of smallholder “organic”…

This violates tenets of the hundreds-year-old Scientific Method that require data obtained through experimentation or observation of the physical world as the means of supporting scientific conclusions.

It is certainly an imaginative (and that is being generous) attempt to unify atmospheric electricity and seismology, but the central weakness is that it moves rapidly from correlation to causation without robust empirical validation.

By shrinking the Stevenson Screens in such a manner, they made yearly temperatures warmer by 0.54C.

Deep in the paper, uncertainty is emphasized, limitations are acknowledged, and projections are framed as exploratory. In the abstract, figures, and conclusions, those same exploratory outputs are converted into quantified impacts with an unmistakable air of urgency.