While I share some of the complaints, this is a highly selective image of what's going on in the Forum. Would be good to have "Recent Posts" listed/filtered according to categories.
If you look at the timestamps, this was a quick and intense exchange: It happened because it happened that several folks where checking the same stuff at the same time. So I think this was mostly a highlight of the Forum -- caveat below *)
Like Neven I think these things are related to the AGW problem (we are a significant process in today's workings of the biogeosphere), and that's why I'm actually following and checking stuff in detail.
(At a normal point in the history of Life I would have stayed in my mathematical ivory tower and percieved all this physics and biology stuff as just another interesting field for play with maths. The times forced me to care more about general natural philosophy and watching human psychology/psychopathy, incl. my self...)I actually despise polit blah ever since the cold war, and some commenters here confirm this.
But also, the polit threads here are a rare gem of social media, because here we mostly have highly educated science minded folks discussing stuff - incl. some very exceptional people that would get drowned/flooded/thinned out in other places on the Internet.
Back to thread topic (humor)... Next to occasional fits of disgust, I somethimes find the polit threads funny, or at least philosophically humorous -- when the highfalutin science guy turns into common Homo "Sapiens" with all their delusion and wishful thinking...
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Someone had swallowed Russian Ukraine-propaganda hook line and sinker, to the point of making up new stuff on the fly, actively ignoring what we had sorted out on the Ukraine threads ad nauseam.
Suggestion to help reduce the noise level:
Any assertion/comment that is not backed with a link or a google-able name/term should be ignored and not engaged with.