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These days, I’m often accused of being a “hopium peddler” -- someone who offers false comfort or even delusional solutions to climate change -- by some who are so worried about climate change, they've decided there's nothing we can do about it. They've given up, and they want everyone else to, too.

But as a climate scientist who’s spent two decades warning about its very real risks, I know that despair is just as dangerous as denial. That's why, in this special edition of Talking Climate, I take a fresh look at the rise of climate doomerism—why it’s spreading, what the science says, and why giving up is the only thing that will guarantee our failure.

So if you’ve ever wondered, is it too late? -- this one’s for you!

Read the full edition of the newsletter here: talkingclimate.ca/p/are-we-rea…

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in reply to Dr. Katharine Hayhoe

@fulelo
The ‘give up, it’s too late’ (don’t do anything) argument is from the same place as the ‘there is no climate crisis’ (don’t do anything) argument.

Refuting this is easy. Climate change is cumulative. Anything you do to lower CO2 emissions helps.

Cumulative.

in reply to Dr. Katharine Hayhoe

Trump will set the world on fire, just for profit. As far as he knows, only profit is real. the rest is a hoax. His power is also real.


The massive Satisfactory 1.1 update is out now with controller support gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/the-…

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And for those who only have a work laptop without a dedicated graphics card, there's always Factorio.



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High over the Mojave Desert, two NASA F-15 research jets made a series of flights throughout May to validate tools designed to measure and record the shock waves that will be produced by the agency’s X-59 quiet supersonic experimental aircraft. The F-15s, carrying the recording tools, flew faster than the speed of sound, matching the […]


overhead line breaks again due to trains towards Lake Balaton byteseu.com/1092412/ #Hungary #Magyarország


This proposal by the BBC is explicitly anti-democratic. As @natashadevon.bsky.social and others have pointed out, more women are moving to the Green party than are men going to Reform - yet the national broadcaster is falling over itself to pander to the extreme right. Why?
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Rural Republicans used to back NPR. Then MAGA changed everything.

Polarized views of public broadcasting,
along with a splintered and increasingly online media environment,
pose a problem for NPR, PBS and their audiences,
who will need some Republicans to break ranks to prevent the cuts that Trump is demanding
as part of a larger package of budget reductions that the House will consider as soon as Tuesday.

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The law of the presence of priests for gynecologic examinations, without the patient’s approval. Republic Gilead. byteseu.com/1092410/ #SlovakRepublic #Slovakia #SlovenskáRepublika #Slovensko


Oklahoma to retry Richard Glossip for noncapital murder after Supreme Court threw out conviction (Ella Lee/The Hill)

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Palestine activists target Newcastle BBC, London Leonardo offices
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"“It is the duty of ordinary citizens to take direct action against the institutions perpetrating the genocide in Gaza”, says group ~ Scott Harris ~ Palestine Action says its activists early this morning targeted the Newcastle offices of the BBC and the London headquarters of weapons manufacturer Leonardo. The BBC offices




🆕⚛️🔐 Starting with iOS 26, CryptoKit gets support for quantum-secure cryptography with algorithms such as ML-KEM, ML-DSA and HPKE with X-Wing:

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👉 Join us for a session on how to protect your app's user data from the emerging threat of quantum computing!
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🔐⚛️ Prepare your network for quantum-secure encryption in TLS

In iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, and visionOS 26, TLS-protected connections will automatically advertise support for hybrid, quantum-secure key exchange in TLS 1.3.

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Here's the Open Statement on sludge spreading launched by us at Fighting Dirty, and signed by many leading figures. The water companies are using farmland as a dump for hazardous chemicals. They mislead farmers, poison the land and threaten our health. It must stop. fightingdirty.org/open-stateme...

Open statement by leading envi...