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The Crisis Report — Notes for CR62

2024 marks the first time since record keeping began that all of the 10 hottest years have fallen within the most recent decade.

101 min readMar 30, 2025

Is this about clouds?

Getting ready to write.

SO, I get a LOT of criticism on Reddit and Substack for “having no academic credentials”. I have been “shadow banned” on both the u/climate and u/climate change subreddits. The only subreddit I can post my climate articles/commentary on, is u/collapse.

This is the ONLY subreddit I can post my climate papers and comments on. The amount of hostility and outright hate I get on most of the other subreddits is amazing to me.

Even more amazing to me is that the Moderators of other subreddits tried to force the Mods on u/collapse to ban me. Apparently I annoy and outrage them SO MUCH that they think reddit users need to be protected from my writing.

One of their lines of attack is that I am “not qualified” to write on climate change because I have “no academic credentials” in the field. I mean, I only have a BS in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science from UC Berkeley, a Masters in the History of Technology, and a Doctorate in Anthropology. None of that matters to them. I don’t have a…

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Richard Crim
Richard Crim

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My entire life can be described in one sentence: Things didn’t go as planned, and I’m OK with that.

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