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I wish in general the ‘green’ movement would cease speaking in terms of doomsday scenarios, disasters, and other ultimatums. It’s shown to be extraordinarily counter productive and discredits the _actual_ science needed for useful dialogs.
When the goal of media is to act as the propaganda arm for ruling elites who are hell bent on establishing anything outside their pushed narrative is misinformation, there is no going back. Virtually the same thing happened with Covid, vaccines, elections, Russiagate and there has been no lesson learned, no corrections or reflections. The purpose of the media is not to keep the people in power in check but to act for whatever agenda they are pushing.
He's a strong right wing biased writer (at least in the recent times) and his writing have been criticized by a number of environmental fact checking organizations. So uncritically posting his writings like they're some kind of miracle is disingenuous at the least.

I also think his Twitter name with MD at the end is some kind of attempt to give his name some sort of extra power. He's not an MD - those are his initials but he could easily modify it to be less indicative of a medical degree.

I'm not sure if a metric with a mean of <1 and std.dev that looks like >1 is a reliable indicator of anything

The author then extrapolated non-changing landfall hurricane frequency in the US to "weather-related disasters are declining not increasing" (presumably all weather disasters worldwide)

I'm sure the people in Pakistan would love to hear that it's "just a regular flood" or the people along the Yangtz that it's "just a regular drought"