Whether we thought he would have made a decent president or not, we should all be grateful to Al Gore for inventing the internet.

"In the next five years, the Earth is overwhelmingly likely to surge again and again past the international climate threshold set as safe and shatter its hottest-year record along the way, according to new United Nations climate projections."

Maybe the heat from it will burn all of the straw men on both sides of the argument.

Anti-Environmentalist Straw Men (Attacking Green Policies)

"They want to ban all cars, meat, and modern technology."
"They care more about bugs and plants than human lives and jobs."
"They want to collapse the economy and return to the Stone Age."

Pro-Environmentalist Straw Men (Attacking Skeptics or Opponents)

"Anyone who questions a green policy is a climate change denier."
"Opponents are just greedy and corporate-funded."
"They just want to pollute the earth for profit."

The reality is that it's a very complex problem involving both natural and human made conditions. There are things that humans can and should collectively do to try to mitigate the problem; automatically jumping to political "tribes" is not going to help the problem.

"Quick! More surveillance centers!"

Honestly, *part* of the increase in the number "record breaking" measurements is due to a new maximum or minimum being measured for a specific new weather station since it was installed, and new weather stations being placed in new locations where most humans didn't or don't usually live. I've seen a number of weather web sites reporting weather this way. Maybe it's to drive clicks, or maybe whoever programmed it that way thought it was a legitimate way to "raise awareness" and didn't think about how it could backfire.

Massive data centers are definitely putting a strain on the environment, along with other energy extraction and transfer conduits. There's no question about that.

'What did "nature" do to cause this'

Nature has larger climate cycles as well as other weather and geographical patterns. The way some environmentalists talk, it's all man made, or it's always humans' fault whenever there's a natural disaster or outlying event. This makes it easier for those who want dismiss concerns to latch onto and paint all environmentalists that way.