Climate Corner

Here's the deal: I study climate change, somewhat. I mostly stumbled into this. I'm by no means a world class scientist (who you should listen to instead of me, probably). I only have a bachelor's degree in geography and some basic knowledge on climate change. However, climate change is a topic that deeply concerns me. Thus, I wanted to work up and organize some of the stuff I learned over the years and put it out there for people to hopefully learn something from it. I will mostly try to address two topics:

• Climate change denial. Climate change denial is undeniably popular right now, which of course contributes to the lack in popular action regarding more drastic measures addressing climate change. I just want to write up some info about common climate change denial talking points and how to counter them factually, if not always effectively. The topic of conspiracy theories (which climate change denial belongs to) is much broader and more difficult to broach and I am no expert on the topic. I just want to provide some semblance of factual information, even if that is not enough to sway hardcore denialists.
• Climate collapse. Climate change is an existential threat. In the worst case, it will lead to the collapse of our global capitalist-industrial society, possibly resulting in the deaths of most humans alive on Earth. I don't want this to happen. And yet, it is still a possibility. I want to provide some basics of how to think about collapse, its causes and mechanisms and possible consequences.

I would still have to put most of this into writing or translate it, so it might take a while before you see anything here. In the meantime, here are some great resources on climate change, that I would highly recommend cheching out:

• Simon Clark's YouTube channel (PhD in atmospheric physics, science communicator)
• Climate Town's YouTube channel (team of science communicators)
• IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) (The IPCC reports present the current scientific consensus on climate change. The whole report is much too long and complicated for most people, but they have summaries for policymakers which are really short and easy to understand, giving you just the basics.)
• Stockholm Resilience Centre (Some really excellent information about planetary boundaries with links to their papers and news articles.)