Ari Schulman on X: “For the last few years, after seemingly every major wildfire, flood, or storm, prominent headlines have linked the disaster to climate change. https://t.co/5kdtqb7Lsm” / X (twitter.com)

This ==> The danger of climate catastrophism and the case for optimism — The New Atlantis

The non-stop headlines of apocalypse due to climate have caused many of us to turn off from caring. Climate enthusiasts feed a steady stream of press releases to media story tellers with BAs in creative writing, promoting outcomes that are not supported. This leads to headline stories linking today’s rain or wind or snow or whatever to apocalyptic climate change scenarios (like RCP 8.5 or SSP5-8.5, neither of which is plausible). It’s science fiction all the way down.

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