Hello. My name is Fredi Otto. You killed my climate. Prepare to die.

Climate change has been a narrative battlefield for 40 years. Duelling narratives broke into the mainstream. Patrick Brown. Bari Weiss. And the climate sceptic industrial complex.

You’d want to think carefully before arguing with Dr. Otto. She has the receipts. (Wicked Problems/Midjourney). We don’t know for sure, but we’re confident Inigo Montoya would approve.

Welcome back to Wicked Problems. The climate tech newsletter some people are saying is like Barbenheimer, but shorter (just about) - and our popcorn is reasonably priced.

Consider the following statements:

1. “Climate change caused event X (insert wildfire/hurricane/flood/extreme wet bulb heat event), which killed Y,000 people.”

2. “Event X (insert wildfire/hurricane/flood/extreme wet bulb heat event), which killed Y,000 people, would not have been possible without climate change.”

3. “Climate change made event X, which killed Y,000 people, three times as likely.”

4. “Event X possibly, maybe would not have been as bad if there had been no climate change, according to some scientist. …