The data does not support the claims often made in the media, yet this does not stop journalists from
using alarmist rhetoric to gain a larger readership.
At the same time, EU leaders should refrain
from alarmist rhetoric and respond with a sober yet firm approach.
When politicians use
alarmist rhetoric like «we are under siege» and it turns out that the threat of this «siege» is roughly the same as the threat of something we use as an icon of rare event, ie deadly lightning strike, then there is something gravely and outrageously wrong with that rhetoric.
«December 2017: Warming / Climate
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Likewise, sea level rises of 3 feet to 6 feet are standard
for alarmist rhetoric (not to mention Al Gore's 20 feet that in his movie inundated New York, Florida and San Francisco.)
Spoke went so far as to question whether the blockchain industry's softening of the comparably
more alarmist rhetoric of bitcoin innovators properly represents the technology and its potential impact.
Unfortunately, as we undertook the painful austerity measures I have described, all we heard from the leadership of our State's public employee unions was
alarmist rhetoric, intransigence and excuses.
The alarmist rhetoric was excessive, but it was enough to generate media attention and caused many states to raise their graduation requirements.
So why all
the alarmist rhetoric by groups like bellwether that our schools are failing and need radical revamping through privatization, teacher evaluation based on test scores and the common core?
And to refer to these schools as «apartheid schools,» which implies that families are legally and physically required to attend segregated schools, is nothing more than
alarmist rhetoric.
I can't get over the fact that the MSM, perhaps even more so than ever are glued to
the alarmist rhetoric.
The contradictions evident in the lazy,
alarmist rhetoric are all too plain.
And isn't fairly modest (2 deg C or less) warming hard to square with
the alarmist rhetoric spouted by Dr. Hansen and others?
What I object to is
the alarmist rhetoric that attempts to scare people based on flimsy or no evidence, usually with the intent of having governments implement coercive measures to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
While no one can say with certainty what the future will hold, especially with the world in the midst of a massive credit deleveraging cycle, I think
the alarmist rhetoric about dramatically higher rates in the near future is overblown (and I've been saying this since April when most of the bank's economists were sounding the alarm bells).