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Hello and welcome to the first Current Climate issue of 2022.
Those of you who follow climate scientists on social media will surely be familiar with the uproar caused by Netflix’s Don’t Look Up, a film about satirizing society’s divisive reception of a planetary threat—specifically in the form of a comet that however serves as a metaphor for human-made climate change—that has split opinions.
Whether you’ve enjoyed the film, disliked it, or ignored it, Forbes contributors have assessed why the film means so much to climate scientists. For fans of the genre “consequences of ignoring climate science,” I recommend the 2004 film The Day After Tomorrow.
More stories highlighted this week include how a new solar…