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Lars Bergmann @drlarsbergmann.bsky.social · 19h

No data, no words, no problems.

Proudly brought to you by the Department of Dumb.

Lars Bergmann @drlarsbergmann.bsky.social · 2d

We are, most probably, the only species to foresee its own extinction - and perfect the means to achieve it.

We measured collapse, celebrated it as innovation, and called the ruins progress.

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Lars Bergmann @drlarsbergmann.bsky.social · 2d

We are making every effort to complete the job as quickly as possible.

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Lars Bergmann @drlarsbergmann.bsky.social · 2d

Cities will drown, then burn, then rebuild - smaller, meaner, hungrier.

Borders will harden; people will move anyway.

Children will grow up asking what “normal weather” used to mean.

And we will tell them stories of seasons that once knew their place.

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Lars Bergmann @drlarsbergmann.bsky.social · 2d

The air will taste like heat.

The rains will come all at once - or not at all.

Fields will turn to dust, rivers to memory.

Food will be scarce, water will be currency.

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Lars Bergmann @drlarsbergmann.bsky.social · 2d

#NoPlanetB

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Lars Bergmann @drlarsbergmann.bsky.social · 2d

How's the climate doing?

The oceans are boiling.
The poles are melting.
The records are burning.
And the silence is deafening.

#ClimateFuckery

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James Hansen @drjamesehansen.bsky.social · Aug 28

Draft Chapter 10 of Sophie’s Planet, Venus Syndrome & Runaway Climate (mailchi.mp/caa/chapter-...) is an introduction (also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/chapter-10...). Quantitative analysis with insights on climate physics will follow.

Chapter 10. The Venus Syndrome & Runaway Climate

James Hansen

jimehansen.substack.com

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Lars Bergmann @drlarsbergmann.bsky.social · Aug 30

Looks like our global 'keep calm and carry on' strategy is working perfectly... the oceans are definitely carrying on, right into hotter temperatures. Nothing to see here, just the planet's thermostat breaking.

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Lars Bergmann @drlarsbergmann.bsky.social · Aug 22

The oceans are boiling in shades of red.

Relax, infinite growth on a finite planet always works out fine.

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Lars Bergmann @drlarsbergmann.bsky.social · Aug 21

Donate to HAUSBRAND BITTE HELFT MEINER MUTTER ,VATER UND SCHWESTER, organized by Virginia Adler

Hallo ich bin die ältere Tochter und sammel spenden für meine… Virginia Adler needs your support for HAUSBRAND BITTE HELFT MEINER MUTTER ,VATER UND SCHWESTER

www.gofundme.com

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James Hansen @drjamesehansen.bsky.social · Aug 6

We, and young people, need help from people who understand the essence of climate science. See Forest versus Trees - columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailin... or its abbreviation - mailchi.mp/caa/seeing-t... also available on my Substack - jimehansen.substack.com/p/seeing-the...

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Lars Bergmann @drlarsbergmann.bsky.social · Aug 11

Früher hat man sich in Familien über Religion, Politik oder Geld gestritten.

2025: "DU HAST WAS FÜR EINE HEIZUNG?!?"

Verwandtschaft beendet. 🔥❄️

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Lars Bergmann @drlarsbergmann.bsky.social · Jul 28

Complex systems vs. the human brain is like sending a Shakespeare play to a toaster.

It’ll light up, but no idea what’s going on.

Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · Jul 27

Your 'moment of doom' for July 27, 2025 ~ Feedback loop alert!

"This phenomenon underscores a complex feedback loop where climate change-induced ice loss may trigger volcanic activities, which in turn, could accelerate climate change."

www.sustainability-times.com/climate/this...

"This Could Trigger Global Chaos": Melting Ice in Antarctica May Unleash a Volcanic Hell No One Is Ready For - Sustainability Times

IN A NUTSHELL 🌋 Melting glaciers due to climate change may trigger increased volcanic activity, creating a feedback loop with global implications. 🔍 Studies on Chilean volcanoes reveal that retreating...

www.sustainability-times.com

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Jörg @realkachelmann.bsky.social · Jul 26

BREAKING

Der neue Temperaturrekord für die Türkei #Tuerkiye ist offiziell: 50,5 Grad.

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Lars Bergmann @drlarsbergmann.bsky.social · Jul 26

No better therapy than some laps of 25.378 km of fear, joy, and questionable decisions.

Thanks again, Nordschleife. 🧠💥🛞

#GreenHell #TrackAddict #Racing #Motorsport #iRacing #Nordschleife

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Lars Bergmann @drlarsbergmann.bsky.social · Jul 24

Zero sugar, yet a symphony of lab-born thrills: sucralose, caffeine, taurine…
Like a science fair in your bloodstream.
Monster’s love letter to the 21st-century metabolism.

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Lars Bergmann @drlarsbergmann.bsky.social · Jul 23

📌 In Nature:

7σ ≠ Nature

Natural variability rarely exceeds 2σ.

7σ means the system has changed.

Radically.

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Lars Bergmann @drlarsbergmann.bsky.social · Jul 23

📌 In Industrial Engineering (Six Sigma):

6σ = "Perfect" process: 3.4 defects per million

7σ = 0.019 defects per billion

A 7σ event is beyond "perfection". It’s fantasy.

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Lars Bergmann @drlarsbergmann.bsky.social · Jul 23

📌 If IQ were normally distributed:

7σ = IQ of 255

Einstein? Nowhere close.

No human has ever scored near that.

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Lars Bergmann @drlarsbergmann.bsky.social · Jul 23

📌 If Coin Tosses were normally distributed:

7σ = 1 head out of 390 billion tosses

You’d wait longer than the universe has existed to see it once.

We just saw it in the ocean.

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Lars Bergmann @drlarsbergmann.bsky.social · Jul 23

📌 If Human Height were normally distributed:

+7σ = A person 3.50 meters (11.5 feet) tall

That’s taller than a giraffe.

It simply doesn’t happen.

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Lars Bergmann @drlarsbergmann.bsky.social · Jul 23

🌊 WHAT DOES +7 SIGMA MEAN?

Sea Surface Temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere have reached a 7-sigma anomaly.

That’s not just unusual. It’s off the charts. Here's how rare 7σ is; in any system:

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Lars Bergmann @drlarsbergmann.bsky.social · Jul 23

aaahhh

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Lars Bergmann @drlarsbergmann.bsky.social · Jul 23

The Northern Hemisphere’s oceans just recorded a +7σ sea surface temperature anomaly relative to the 1951–2000 mean. Such a deviation is virtually impossible in a stable system. We're now forcing oceanic change at a pace unseen in thousands of years. #OceanWarming #ClimateCrisis #ClimateFuckery

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