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Both Mann and Dr. Ken Caldeira, an atmospheric scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science's Department of Global Ecology, pointed to an analysis by University of California, Berkeley climatologist Dr. Zeke Hausfather, who found that the current temperature increases are consistent with pre-existing climate models.

According to climate scientist Zeke Hausfather’s newsletter The Climate Brink, January 2025 was warmer than every preceding January chronicled by scientists, surpassing the prior record set in January 2024 “by a sizable margin.”

“It’s always been a very accepting community of eccentric people of all types,” said Chambers, who purchased his home from the estate of the infamous compost czar Tim Dundon, also known as Zeke the Sheik.

"It's not like 1.49C is fine, and 1.51C is the apocalypse - every tenth of a degree matters and climate impacts get progressively worse the more warming we have," explains Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist at Berkeley Earth, a research group in the US.

While Earth’s rising temperatures are somewhat consistent with the higher end of climate model projections, the heat has also defied some expectations, according to Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist with Berkeley Earth.