Remove Rule 4. The "no doomsday predictions" rule is actively harmful. I model storm surge scenarios that exceed 1-in-10,000-year thresholds—those aren’t speculation, they’re the output of peer-reviewed models. When climate scientists are told to soften our conclusions in public spaces, it doesn’t make the outcomes less real, just less understood. I’ve seen too many discussions derailed by someone citing a cold day in Berlin as rebuttal; we can handle the real data. If a rule forces us to downplay what we know, it’s the rule that doesn’t belong here.
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