![]() But I don’t blame the author for asking me to read the book and see for myself. What I actually said was that if what I had heard about the book from the press materials were true, then the book was probably alarmist and not worth reading. I don’t read much popular science literature, and I doubt I would have read this book if I hadn’t made the mistake of referring to it (in a negative manner) in the comments section of a RealClimate post. This riddle was very much on my mind as I sat down to write my thoughts on Mark Lynas’s book, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (London: Fourth Estate, 2007). But it really depends, one might say, on whether the “calling out” is done in such a way as to simultaneously prevent a stampede and prevent anyone getting burned. It is often said that one should not call out “fire” in a crowded building. ![]() ![]() “Alarmism” is a term that gets bandied about a lot. ![]()
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