I am now quite confused. You ARE joking, aren't you?

The real news would be WHY the seas have been saltier around Antarctica. (If that is true). Where did the salt come from? It would need an awful lot of salt to produce a measurable effect in all the seas round Antarctica.

TFA mentions "sea ice", and later - separately - quote Alessandro Silvano as saying, ""The impact of Antarctic ice is massive in terms of sea-level rise".

Obviously the melting of sea ice has no effect on sea level, although the melting of glaciers on land does.

How about not having a big war?

If that's too difficult, H. sapiens is going down.

"My neighbour’s asleep in his bed,
I’ll soon make him wish he were dead,
I’ll take up the tuba instead – WAA WAA !"

https://www.hornmatters.com/20...

That was really convincing. For a long moment I thought you were serious! 8-)

Actually this is a very important result, because it highlights ChatGPT's strength and weakness. It's very good at dredging through vast amounts of text and forming principles of prediction, so that it can fake a human being's speech.

But it doesn't have any intellectual power at all - which is exactly what chess tests.

"On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in the checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite".

- Emmanuel Lasker, World Champion 1894-1921

Exactly what do LLMs "produce"?

"The world faces an 80% probability of breaking another annual temperature record within the next five years, according to a forecast released Wednesday by the World Meteorological Organization and the UK Meteorological Office".

The Met Office has zero credibility, as it has been discovered that it posts invented temperature readings at 103 non-existent weather stations. If you don't like the sound of that, then move on. If you want to know the facts, read at least one of the following articles.

Science Shock: U.K. Met Office is “Inventing” Temperature Data from 100 Non-Existent Stations
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/...

Inept ‘Fact Check’ by Science Feedback Shines Further Light on U.K. Met Office’s Junk and Fabricated Temperature Measurements
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/...

The Met Office is Unable to Name the Sites Providing ‘Estimated’ Temperature Data For its 103 Non-Existent Stations
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/...

"Problem is ICE users are forcing their fumes and brake dust on everyone".

Electric vehicles don't have brakes? That's exciting news.

Easily explained. Americans are among the world's most gullible people, many of them love virtue-signalling, and quite a few of them still have more money than sense.

I think it has more to do with George Carlin's observation:

"Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!"

Not really. But "the mean" is an abstraction - it is very useful for some purposes, but only if it is clearly understood.

I remember that the psychologist and statistician Kahneman had a story about how the Israeli air force decided to design a new "one size fits all" seat for its jet fighters. After many complaints and some injuries, a survey was done and it was discovered that this seat - painstakingly designed to fit the average pilot - did not in fact fit perfectly any one pilot in the whole air force. It was a perfect fit for the average pilot, but not for any real pilot.

I couldn't locate a reference, as the Web is chock full of the Kahneman and Tversky lesson about regression to the mean.

"Ironically, Muhlheim seemed to suggest that could cement the very market dominance the court seeks to remedy".

Ironic, yes. Surprising, no. Yet again, government accomplishes exactly the opposite of what it aims to do.

An intelligent, educated, engaged population is the key to civilisation and democracy.

At present the USA and most of the West are on 0/3, which, I believe, is called striking out.