This article contains wild claims without backing them up or referencing any science at all. It references another article, an instagram post, and an interview

This article contains wild claims without backing them up or referencing any science at all. It references another article, an instagram post, and an interview. Mestre is apparently a climber, not a scientist. Greg Porter, the author, is a freelance copyrighter and pop culture commentator. This trend of "make it sound dead serious and catastrophic" is having the opposite effect that people like Greg are probably intending -- it's turning people off of what actually is a serious (albeit not this serious) issue.