“This little report is basically designed to suppress science, not to
enhance it or encourage it,” says Joellen Russell, an oceanographer at
the University of Arizona. 'It’s awful.' ”
("Outrage over Trump team’s climate report spurs researchers to fight back" , Nature, August 2025).
When an individual ignores a life-threatening danger that applies only to them, it is usually called 'denial' with perhaps a little 'suicidal' mixed in.
When a group ignores a problem endangering it's existence it is usually called group-think denial, with perhaps a lot of 'suicidal' mixed in:
"In other words, a society does not ever die 'from natural causes',
but always dies from suicide or murder --- and nearly always from the
former, as this chapter has shown."
"On 20 January 2022, the
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set their infamous Doomsday Clock at
100 seconds to midnight for the third year running. Their accompanying
report — entitled ‘At Doom’s Doorstep’ — identified three key factors which brought humanity “the closest it has ever been to civilisation-ending apocalypse”.
Two of these factors are unlikely to surprise many readers: namely, climate change and the growing threat of nuclear war. The third might be a little surprising: “a corrupted information ecosphere
that undermines rational decision-making”. Though some media outlets do
deal with the concentration of media influence, this is rarely seen as
an existential threat."
To break with the group-think denial of global warming induced climate change, I have added some appendices following recent updates from public databases (Thermal Expansion, Conservative Temperature).
Dredd Blog alerts readers in an attempt to counter the "corrupted information ecosphere."
