Over at Stoat, William Connolley has just discovered that some alarmists have labeled either global warming or climate change as ‘catastrophic.’ This upsets him, as he is one of many who maintained that ‘catastrophic’ is something that skeptics say that alarmists write, but that in fact it is only skeptics putting words in the mouths of sober scientists and politicians who would never exaggerate.
Connolley is referring to this open letter, which indeed does talk about preventing ‘catastrophic climate change.’ And it indeed is fairly silly, as Connolley rightly points out.
So, are skeptics falsely accusing alarmists of shouting fire in a crowded theater?
This open letter is not unusual, as Connolley surely knows. Many activists, alarmists and even more who should know better have been describing future climate change in apocalyptic terms for decades.
It’s in the academic literature: “On Modeling and Interpreting the Economics of Catastrophic
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