@SocraticEthics There is no doubt Ukraine would benefit from NATO membership. But alliances require both parties to benefit and it is NATOs well being that will decide when Ukraine will be admitted. Please direct your remarks to that second condition and explain how NATO benefits from Ukraine membership when Ukraine is currently at war and NATO is not.

@petergleick 2/ Notoriety given to extremes comes off as a scare tactic and begs the question why similar recognition is not given when extremes don’t occur. It makes a climate scientist look biased and that is something climate science cannot afford. At the very least a remark concerning an extreme event should come with caveats.

@petergleick 1/ It annoys me when climate scientists cite extremes as evidence of climate change. Extremes are the noisiest signal of climate change. They can be informative only when there are many such events, and because of their infrequent occurrence and high variability it takes a much longer record than mean statistics to establish a significant trend.