Even calling what the national lab does "alarmism" is objectively a lie meant to distort and politicize basic and important science. I don't need to tell you the political party of the person from the quote because that political party has been working for six a long time to take non-partisan science and politicize it and use that politicization to divide the country.

There is no national lab producing "alarmism" and calling it that as justification for cutting funding is meant as a justification for restricting free speech and free science.

You're complaining about the level of weather notifications. Those exist because people die in the heat and they die in big storms and now there's more technology to make people think about it before driving their car into a flash flood.

There are severe weather alerts even in red-states that don't believe the climate is changing at all. Because they do notice when people die.

Maybe that's too much "big government" for you tastes - "oh no, they made my phone beep!" - but...

That's not really the same thing as research into knowing what is going on long-term.

You should explain all that patiently to the drowning polar bears up north.

Or maybe offer an alternative solution to the Svalbard seed bank? They actually need to pump water from melting ice outside nowadays.

>your computer will scream at you in bright red text it's hot outside. You'll even receive emergency messages on your phone, tv and radio from the government when it reaches triple-digits

That weather kills people.

We get “weather warnings” here in the UK, too. To my ears, they sound “alarmist”, but I’m in London which has a relatively stable and comfortable microclimate.

Howvmever: it’s definitely the case that climate patterns have shifted. London used to get some snow, most winters. Since about 2015 it’s had almost none. The transitions from one season to the next used to be clear, now they’re vague. Our summers keep hitting higher and higher peaks.

Elsewhere in the UK we’re getting more rain. Flooding is increasingly common, and deeper, in several regions. Each year for the past 5 it seems to get a little worse. I hear insurance prices are changing to reflect it.

So, I think both things are true. There’s some alarmism, and also the climate is changing. The alarm seems justified to me.

Have you seen the charts which show the rate at which peak temperatures are rising?

> normal and completely natural

In Portland, where I used to live, there are more hundred-plus-degree days and heat deaths in the last decade than in the city's entire recorded history. The city has had to open cooling centers for extended periods every summer for vulnerable people, something that was never needed before outside of specific single-year exceptional heat waves.

https://www.oregonlive.com/weather/2017/08/its_not_just_your...

https://www.wweek.com/news/2025/08/25/extreme-heat-claims-th...

If you can't see how obviously in peril the planet is, you're just ignorant. It isn't "alarmist", it's reality. Here's the data I'm basing my opinions on:

https://berkeleyearth.org/global-temperature-report-for-2024...

IF you have other data that doesn't show the temperature rising consistently and rather concerningly, then go ahead and share it.

Until those graphs start going down, we can project that they just keep going up. No, the world isn't ending "$NEXT_YEAR", nor will it "end", but it will become extremely uncomfortable and rather dire for billions of people if the current trend continues - and it could happen a lot faster than you would be able to estimate. That's why climate science is so important. We have to act, or the world is very likely to end up in a bad, bad place.

The big problem is more heat amplifies the problems and accelerates the heating. Those charts in the near future are likely to hockey-stick at some point, and then I'd like to see the gymnastics people will have to do to handwave it away.