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I find that German law idiotic. Of course it costs the landlord something to hire a broker, even if the renter is supposed to pay the fee. It still eats into the overall budget of the renter, that could otherwise have gone to the landlord.

In what sense? Because global warming happens faster than expected? Maybe - but such local heat events are not a good way to determine that.

Especially if you can pick just the forecasts that are not already wrong, and forget about the rest.

According to this article in nature, there is rather a tendency to use worst case scenarios that are no longer probable.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00177-3

I guess no matter what happens, it is always due to climate change.

In general I think local records are to be expected, because of variance. Maybe they become more frequent because of changing jet streams or whatever, but you can not go in the other direction and claim every record is because of climate change.

If you point out recent coldness records, you will be lectured about the difference between weather and climate. I think the real issue may be the human delusion that things staying the same is normal (perhaps because of the short life span of humans), and more recently in scientific terms, that averages are normal.

About this article I find it odd that it cites Thatcher, of all people. Surely the information she used in the 80ies is outdated by now, and she presumably never was a climate researcher.

True, as I said, nevertheless they seem to have a huge tradition and catalogue of non-predatory games.

Gender studies, critical race theory, climate change, environmental pollution, economics/socialism, corona, Trump...

With Trump (or maybe just the rise of social media in general) cancel culture has become rampant. The general discussion culture has become angrier and unforgiving. People feel they are fighting a war and the enemy has to be shut down at all cost.

With Corona and climate many people feel like literally their lives are at risk. With Corona, censorship of dissenting opinions has become the norm.

I don't want my kids to be taught that boys are bad by nature and have to be taught to be like girls, and girls are only good if they behave like boys.

I don't want my kids to be taught that they are inherently sexist or something-phobic if they are not gay or Trans, or merely approach somebody they are attracted to.

I don't want them to be taught that they are inherently racist and bad because they are white.

I don't want them to be taught that they are doomed because global warming will end the world in a couple of years.

I don't want them to be taught that capitalism exploits people and socialism is the only recourse.

I don't want them to be taught that they should listen to "experts" and believe the scientists. They should be taught critical thinking and doing science.

Nintendo is Japanese, and I don't think they heavily rely on such mechanics. They may have such aspects in their games for mobile phones, though.

On the contrary, the last couple of years (including corona) have shown how much misinformation governments and schools are willing to spread. I worry a lot about the best ways to shield my children from that.

There is an infinite number of alarmist scenarios. We can not react to all of them. The argument that it would be too late if some thing x would really happen is not very useful for decision making.

For example a meteorite could hit earth and wipe out all life. Clearly we should pour all resources into building space ships.

I haven't changed the goal posts, criteria were clearly stated higher up. If Jacobabad gets abandoned, perhaps we can talk. Although in "Collapse" you can read about places that were abandoned after thousands of years in the past, so even such a thing is not proof that we are doomed.

"Started happening" - nothing severe has happened yet, though. And coastal regions often have other issues than rising sea levels. For example land sinking because too much water has been pumped from the wells. Also human settlements are probably expanding, at times into places that were not fit for building to begin with.

The places with "wet bulb temperature" probably are uninhabited already. Such places have always existed (death valley perhaps an example in the US).

I don't claim climate doesn't change, just the dramatic downsides don't seem to happen somehow.

Those are also still here (with exception of the heat wave victims, which seem out of place in an affluent country. I would suspect failure of politics/health system. But heat waves have always happened).

No, I mean direct "mechanical" impact, agriculture, building, deforestation and so on.

We can not continue listening to the alarmists. There is an infinite number of things that can go wrong. Yet here we still are.

Regions becoming uninhabitable, sea levels rising, mass extinctions.

As of now it is difficult to find any significant damage that is not actually the result of direct human mismanagement that they try to blame on climate change.

Edit: no, not climate change. Things like diverting water and pumping wells dry, planting the wrong trees and preventing small fires that leads to huge fires, for example.

"They still had hope back then. Reading that hope today hurts." - why? Nothing severe has happened yet. Article probably cherry picks the "best" predictions, too.

Neither heat waves nor forest fires are a new thing.