Twenty years of blogging in hindsight.
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"One thing that I didn’t anticipate then was the vast global scale that fake news and conspiracy theories later would attain. Neither did I foresee how they would penetrate other disciplines, nor the extent of the division in today’s society between those who value truths and those who don’t..."

(It must be a sad, fruitless job being a climate scientist. Expecting people who have no background in science to believe that their activities are impacting the temperature of the planet. Why would they believe such a thing?)

https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2024/11/twenty-years-of-blogging-in-hindsight/