it looks like equirectangular (shine horizontal lasers from a rod through the poles through the Earth's surface onto a cylinder of the same height, record its surface image, then unfurl it), which is still about as bad as Mercator (shine omnidirectional light from a point source in the centre through the surface onto an infinitely tall cylinder) since the means by which it conserves area (exaggerating horizontal distance as much as it understates vertical) make distance:area only correct for diagonal Rhumb lines.

haha I came here to post exactly this. “I bet the route doesn’t look so roundabout if it were put on an actual 3d globe”

Yeah lol this way it really looks like a boneheaded idea

True, climate change isn't only bad. Some parts will actually benefit at least for humans (local fauna will have more issues). It's climate change, not climate destruction.

In the 60s the Soviets actually considered damming off the bering strait to make Siberia warmer. Kennedy apparently wasn't even too opposed to the idea.

However the parts where the effect is bad for humans heavily outweigh the good parts. Because that's where humans live now, there's a reason we didn't live in northern Siberia much. We live where the conditions were favourable in the past and those are largely becoming less favourable. Meaning huge amounts of people wanting to move in a hurry, the kind of thing that tends to conflict.

Just want to point this out because there seems to be a lot of pooh-poohing going around right now, saying it's not so bad. But it is already bad for the places where we actually live and it's only beginning.

My favorite website to see all the relevant climate trends:

https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/seaice_daily/?nhsh=nh

According to that graph we're not currently at the absolute record low (2020 and 2016 were lower apparently), but only because so many of the recent years were record-low years.