Michael Mann versus the โDoomistsโ
Last month, Breakthrough Australia published a paper by David Spratt and Ian Dunlop that claims that โclimate change now represents a near- to mid-term existential threat to human civilisationโ. Climate scientist Michael Mann was quick to put down the paper as โoverblown rhetoricโ. He was quoted as saying that โI respect the authors and appreciate that their intentions are good, but as I have written before, overblown rhetoric, exaggeration, and unsupportable doomist framing can be counteractive to climate action.โ The quote by Mann raises a number of questions. Is the report by Spratt and Dunlop โoverblown rhetoricโ indeed? Does Mann...