The New Yorker, ever the bastion of highbrow #alarmism, has decided to treat a monarchist blogger's fever dreams as America's imminent doom. 🤴📉 Apparently, Silicon Valley titans are swapping their hoodies for crowns, and democracy's days are numbered. 🙄👑
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/09/curtis-yarvin-profile #NewYorker #SiliconValley #DemocracyMonarchy #BloggerFeverDreams #HackerNews #ngated

Klimatalarmismen och demoniseringen av fossila bränslen fortsätter i Public Service - KLIMATET 12 med Staffan Mörner

https://swebbtv.se/w/aVaXFSirZ8cezJCRbWD3VM

Den svenska regeringen använder sig av klassiska högerextremistiska knep för att skapa en falskt verklighetsbild. Lögner. Överdrifter. Felaktigheter. Angrepp på vetenskapen. På så sätt banar de väg för en kriminalpolitik som är felaktig och vansinnig. En kriminalpolitik som kommer att öka brottsligheten

https://blog.zaramis.se/2025/03/05/logner-och-overdrifter-banar-vag-for-en-vansinnig-kriminalpolitik/

An amount of land equivalent to the Isle of Wight has been added to the shorelines of 13,000 islands around the world in just the last 20 years. This fascinating fact of a 369.67 square kilometre increase has recently been discovered by a group of Chinese scientists analysing both surface and satellite records. Overall, land was lost during the 1990s, but the scientists found that in the study period of three decades to 2020 there was a net increase of 157.21 km2. The study observed considerable natural variation in both erosion and accretion.

[...]

The scientists identify many reasons why islands can grow in size despite the small annual rises in sea level seen in many parts of the world. It is noted that island shorelines are constantly changing due to factors such tides, winds, nearshore hydrodynamics and the transport of sediment. On inhabited islands, human action such as fish farming and land reclamation can be important.

Of course, humans action can have a number of unintended consequences, notably the mining of coral and the breakdown of natural water barriers.

Good to know facts, lets see what another three decades will do. The article itself isn't much of a read do to its poking a laugh at the climate change hysteria, its not good journalism, but the article does present a counterbalance to the one-sided alarmism that seem to prevail. (Environmental knowledge is inversely associated with climate change anxiety - link.springer.com/article/10.1…)

#Climate #Water #Islands #Alarmism
Islands That Climate Alarmists Said Would Soon "Disappear" Due to Rising Sea Found to Have Grown in Size – The Daily Sceptic

What affluent cis white Democrats generally aren't aware of when it comes to talking about #politics is that the sort of #alarmism that is present in white people raising the spectre of the "end of democracy in America", if #Trump is elected is that it's only for their privileged demographic that Trump represents a significant departure from their nominal level of comfort with our supposedly "democratic" society. The rest of us been done lived with this shit our whole lives. #USpol #elections

#ChatControl may be dead, but unfortunately this doesn't mean we can relax just now.

EU citizens, you want to be able to trust your computer not to accept a "mandatory root certificate"?

Please contact your representatives.

Let's #fixEIDAS! The proposal is absolutely bonkers; appeals to fix it have been met with incomprehension and silence.

https://last-chance-for-eidas.org/

I assure you it's not "#alarmism".

Read Article 45 of the proposal.

(btw: don't let anyone tell you otherwise. there's someone lurking here who's spreading misinformation that this is all "#alarmism", but I've read the proposal too and so can you ...

especially Article 45.)

#eIDAS

There’s substantial #evidence that people don’t feel that they personally are doing badly. Both surveys & #consumer behavior suggest, on the contrary, that while most Americans feel that they’re doing OK, they believe that the #economy is doing badly, where “the economy” presumably means other people.

(Which means #media whether “#newspapers”, #CableNews, or #internet platforms, the #sensationalized #alarmism particularly on the right is mis/disinforming people)

#Disinformation #MediaLiteracy

“There is no climate emergency,” the Global Climate Intelligence Group (CLINTEL) said in its World Climate Declaration (pdf), made public in August. “Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific. Scientists should openly address uncertainties and exaggerations in their predictions of global warming, while politicians should dispassionately count the real costs as well as the imagined benefits of their policy measures.”

[...]

“Climate models have many shortcomings and are not remotely plausible as policy tools,” the coalition said, adding that these models "exaggerate the effect of greenhouse gases" and "ignore the fact that enriching the atmosphere with CO2 is beneficial.” For instance, even though climate alarmists characterize CO2 as environmentally-damaging, the coalition pointed out that the gas is “not a pollutant.”

Carbon dioxide is “essential” to all life on earth and is “favorable” for nature. Extra CO2 results in the growth of global plant biomass while also boosting the yields of crops worldwide.

They sure are right about the need to scale down the alarmism.

#News #Climate #ClimateChange #Science #Protest #Alarmism
Over 1,600 Scientists Sign ‘No Climate Emergency’ Declaration

Not so (the) Independent...spreading the same sensationalist crap as any other rag. Again: they're not whales and they're not killers. Homo sapiens are the killers. They're orcas. Orcas fighting back, playing around, defending their territory, who knows? Demonizing them doesn't contribute to understand their actions nor is it "news". #orcas #alarmism #crapnews

LinkedIn and Mastodon will only permit 4 poll options, but I think this should be rank-ordered weighted survey.

For example, I would weigh myself:

- 40% curious creator
- 25% governance advocate
- 20% commercial profiteer
- 15% alarmist

#generativeAI #AI #executives #opinions #vision #creativity #governance #commercialism #alarmism

#meh #ai #alarmism

Reasons not to have kids? Preference, not being able to, climate change and our epic resource use in the west, lack of money, lack of suitable housing.

AI isn't on this list. Yes it could be a threat, but this chaps argument is like saying that the mechanical printing press is going to make everyone unemployed.

Even the motor car, we still have horses. True a lot less of them, but they are no way extinct. Technology doesn't kill, humans do.

https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/06/08/hold-off-from-having-kids-if-you-are-yet-to-become-a-parent-warns-ai-expert-mo-gawdat

@Verdantsquare Nothing special here. All #Alarmism of the #LoonyLeft

#Infosec #Alarmism #Shitposting

SOLAR VORTEX!!! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!

J/K, apparently this happens every 11 years. The only people who should be excited about it are solar scientists, since usually the Earth doesn't have a good angle on this phenomenon.

https://www.space.com/vortex-sun-poles

#sun #SolarVortex #alarmism

Inside #SpinLaunch, the #Space Industry’s Best Kept #Secret : WIRED

The top 10 #MIT #Sloan news stories of 2022 : MIT Sloan

#Technology, Not #Alarmism, Will Help Tackle #ClimateChange : Misc

Check our most popular #KnowledgeLinks

https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/bookmarks

I love that reaction to the 2003 acrylamide alarm:

- Did you hear about the risk?
Yes 98%

- will you change your behaviour?
No: 69%

--> article worth reading about #hype & #alarmism in #ScienceCommunication
https://doi.org/10.1080/713852123

#TuesdayColumn: About how easy it is to turn a collection of facts into a tapestry of misconceptions to wash your hands of culpability and #alarmism, especially concerning something so holistic and grand as #ClimateChange. #ClimateAnxiety #writing #environmentalism

A Dummies' Guide to Climate Conscience:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2022/07/19/a-dummies-guide-to-climate-conscience/

And you think that I'm an alarmist!? Think again! (BTW: Nothing wrong with alarmism)

*Environmental documentary Planet of the Humans argues green energy won't save us from 'total human apocalypse'*

https://www.nonfictionfilm.com/news/planet-of-the-humans-possibly-most-bracing-environmental-documentary-ever-made-premieres-at-traverse-city-film-festival

"Leading toward 'total human apocalypse' and green energy is 'not going to save us, it's actually going to kill us faster'"

"Films about environmental issues have long been a staple of the documentary form, a genre that in recent years alone has brought us Before the Flood, Chasing Ice, Chasing Coral and, of course, An Inconvenient Truth. But those documentaries arguably pale in importance to Planet of the Humans, which just held its world premiere at the Traverse City Film Festival.

The film directed by Jeff Gibbs, produced by Gibbs and Ozzie Zehner and executive produced by Michael Moore, makes the deeply disturbing case that unless we reverse course, the human species faces ruin. …"

#documentary #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #PlanetoftheHumans #alarmism %%%