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Also, checking out the abstract of the paper (https://science.sciencemag.org/content/314/5800/787.long , paywalled, but it must be on scihub if someone has a moment) doesn’t mention extinction of anything. Presumably, predicting the apocalypse would merit a line there, right?

Climate change is real and awful, but hysteric doom-mongering reporting about it does far more harm than good. Compare the D.A.R.E. model of communicating about drugs to people.

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Alarmist claims like this do tend to fuel climate change denial.

It's pretty much why the green movement lost me. When I was growing up - we were supposed to have no snow by 2015, and all the wales were supposed to dead.

I see the value in clean water, clean air, biodiversity, and living in harmony with nature. However scaremongering and wild predictions (the latest one I heard seems to be that we have 12 years?), is an easy way to drive me away from the movement as a whole. Even though I agree that emissions should be cut, fuck the crazies I ain't dealing with their shit.

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