On using ‘Advances in Scientific Knowledge’ to Preempt Deliberate Misinformation from Sceptics with a Personal Agenda

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The strong “super El Niño” of 2023 will weaken in the summer of 2024, but that will not undermine the high likelihood that the past 18 months will have anchored a new floor from which new warming will reemerge with what has been remarkable persistence for more than a decade. I write this correspondence as a case study in how to use ‘advances in scientific knowledge’ to preempt claims by personally-motivated deniers, sceptics and opinion-makers. I strong expect that these important players in forming public opinion will assert with faux authenticity that the coming of a La Niña later this fall will be strong evidence that recent monthly record temperatures will turn out to be anomalies in the record from what is otherwise a benign climate.