„The climate crisis is here already.“
No. A crisis is a temporary event that you enter and exit, strengthened by many lessons learned and challenges overcome, if you’re lucky.
The climate catastrophe, on the other hand, will inexorably and irreversibly turn our world upside down forever, will kill a vast amount of people and destroy trillions of material value.
The only question is whether we will manage to contain it to an extent that our civilization is not being destroyed to the ground. Every day we go on ignoring this fact is rising the risk of fucking this up completely.
The Russians and their allies will look at this with skepticism. They will deny AI any credibility. They will call AI an American or Ukrainian or Western mouthpiece.
Russia’s enemies will use it for anti-Russian propaganda.
And when AI criticizes Ukraine or Israel or Germany, it is just the other way around.
These reports are of great value to people with a sense of justice, who have an informed opinion about what is happening in the world or who want to work to make the world a little better.
Unfortunately, such people are extremely rare in politics and the media. These people evaluate AI reports and their credibility based on whether they are useful or harmful to their political goals.