Exaggerated claims undermine drive to cut emissions, scientists warn

Exaggerations are necessary when perpetrating a myth, but the alarmists have gone so far overboard that moderate scare tactics and lies don't take hold. So as people, especially in America, fall off the global warming bandwagon due in part to absurdities like twenty-foot sea level rises and humans migrating to Antarctica and resorting to cannibalism, scientists just want us to believe moderate lies about climate, such as that a warmer climate would be bad - really bad - for life on earth, even though the climate has been warmer in the past, for longer, and never resulted in any civilizational calamity or mass extinction. The goal is to dupe us into willingly giving up everything we own, and submit to population control, including mass genocide (if only for *other* people). Let's tone it down a bit, 'kay?

Times of London -

Exaggerated and inaccurate claims about the threat from global warming risk undermining efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and contain climate change, senior scientists have told The Times.

Environmental lobbyists, politicians, researchers and journalists who distort climate science to support an agenda erode public understanding and play into the hands of sceptics, according to experts including a former government chief scientist.

Excessive statements about the decline of Arctic sea ice, severe weather events and the probability of extreme warming in the next century detract from the credibility of robust findings about climate change, they said.

Such claims can easily be rebutted by critics of global warming science to cast doubt on the whole field. They also confuse the public about what has been established as fact, and what is conjecture.


The experts all believe that global warming is a real phenomenon with serious consequences, and that action to curb emissions is urgently needed.

They fear, however, that the contribution of natural climate variations towards events such as storms, melting ice and heatwaves is too often overlooked, and that possible scenarios about future warming are misleadingly presented as fact.

“I worry a lot that NGOs [non=governmental organisations] are very much in the habit of doing exactly that,” said Professor Sir David King, director of the Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford, and a former government chief scientific adviser.

“When people overstate happenings that aren’t necessarily climate change-related, or set up as almost certainties things that are difficult to establish scientifically, it distracts from the science we do understand. The danger is they can be accused of scaremongering.