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US to rewrite its past national climate reports

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Re: US to rewrite its past national climate reports

#54
The instruction manual called "1984" arrived forty years late.

But the insurance companies are in the know. House insurance rates are raising a lot in many at risk states and areas. Just heard Texas joined that fun.

So seems capitalists involved with insurance and finance know the real facts.

Re: US to rewrite its past national climate reports

#56

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." Feynman -- In this case, nature will not just not be fooled, it will extract retribution, unfortunately also on those that weren't fooled in the first place.

The old reports were somehow protecting us?

Carbon emissions can only be reduced by engineering and manufacturing advances

Re: US to rewrite its past national climate reports

#57
post #42

Don't Look Up!

"If we stopped testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any"

"All new numbers".

Honestly I think this stuff goes very under-reported. The world has become so used to anti-intellectualism that simple ignorance in the highest office(s) is now excusable, and criticising it is implicitly cast as political. Which is a state of affairs that can be weaponised.

(Lest people think I am sniping at the USA from the UK, I'd observe that we as a nation were bounced into a monumental decision by a series of politicians who flatly refused to make their numbers add up when challenged)

Re: US to rewrite its past national climate reports

#58
post #49

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." Feynman -- In this case, nature will not just not be fooled, it will extract retribution, unfortunately also on those that weren't fooled in the first place.

Let’s not get carried away with hubris. Nature wrote our genes. Nature made us the way we are. All this nonsense you see going on is ultimately a result of cognitive biased thinking, especially confirmation bias. The fact that we differ so deeply from these biases was not our decision, it was thrust upon us by nature and it helped us survive in an environment very different from the one we found ourselves in now.

No, most people believe in climate change. In a fundamentally anti-human move, oligarchs have put a climate denier in office so he would push against doing anything about it, as it goes against their short-term interests.

Re: US to rewrite its past national climate reports

#59

Does anybody know where I can find a copy of the new report? I'd be interested to read what arguments they came up with.

I think this is the one

https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2025-07/DOE_Criti...

It is really just a collection of 'skeptic' arguments form the last 20 years or so. Science magazie had an article about it

https://www.science.org/content/article/contrarian-climate-a...

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