Worse. Its like someone shouting "Fire! We are dead in 5 seconds!". People who are still alive after 5 seconds will correctly figure that this is a liar and possibly also assume that there is no fire at all.
Boy who cried wolf.
Boy who cried wolf.
They don't say we're all gonna die. They don't say anything about such a short time period as 5 seconds. You're accusing them of being alarmist, but the way you're describing their claims is itself a false and hyperbolic caricature.
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But that is no reason to calmly stay there doing nothing while the flames keep rising up.
Its a matter of how you communicate.
I'm tempted to rewrite the abstract in a better wording so people can compare realize what an difference that makes.
It makes zero difference, because the people who could change the course of all this aren't listening at all to those who speak up, regardless of what is said or how it's said. They're firmly convinced that money is literally more important than any life (even their own), and no words can or will change their minds. Literal decades of inaction despite growing numbers of actual climate scientists speaking up about the issue has proven this.
That is the articles wording, not mine.