I try to ration my alarmism judiciously in this newsletter.
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Demographers now admit that the overpopulation alarmism of yesteryear was misplaced.
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Think Chicken Little, minus the alarmism, plus a lot more math.
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His Reefer Madness-era alarmism is so anachronistic it's almost quaint.
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Financial analysts worried about losing their jobs should resist alarmism, though.
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I stay away from any alarmism or discussion on policy / activism.
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But the panel's uncertainty is scarcely more reassuring than Berenson's alarmism.
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The 21625 timeline unleashed the current wave of heightened climate alarmism.
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" Gregory Pence on alarmism: "I probably shouldn't say this, but I will.
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Alarmism may not be productive, but states do have reason to worry.
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In recent years, this question would invite accusations of hyperbole and alarmism.
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This explains the alarmism of the "Civil War" of the book's title.
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Accompanying this alarmism is an equally dangerous phenomenon: a feeling of fatalism.
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Some scientists even began embracing alarmism — particularly with that United Nations report.
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"climate alarmism" of the few will spur and grow popular movements for change.
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And where do you find the line between responsible education and undue alarmism?
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Throughout history, technological innovations and new forms of entertainment have consistently provoked alarmism.
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The American energy revolution is sadly under-reported while climate alarmism is readily promoted.
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In some ways, this is healthy since deficit alarmism was never a good idea.
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"Each time we have new technologies, there's a wave of alarmism that follows," he said.
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She was accused of alarmism, and the island's Roman Catholic archbishop criticized her condom plan.
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What's more, the Hollenders have come under fire for what critics describe as dangerous alarmism.
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Another broad disagreement is whether alarmism makes our prospects of tackling climate change better or worse.
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But by invoking the Nazi analogy, we often end up going down the path of alarmism.
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The FCC shouldn't be swayed by NOAA's alarmism; your 7-day weather forecast will be fine.
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Cook cautioned against alarmism, but said the study provides information growers should use to plan their seasons.
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For decades, there were few things with a worse reputation than "alarmism" among those studying climate change.
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In some ways this is healthy, since deficit alarmism was never a good idea on the merits.
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Bring these factors together, and Przybylski says you have all the ingredients necessary for alarmism and moral panic.
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In documentary filmmaking, as in news writing, there is a fine line between irresponsible alarmism and dispassionate reportage.
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Julie Gunlock is a senior fellow at Independent Women's Forum and leads the organization's Culture of Alarmism Project.
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To the Editor: There is no need for alarmism over the falling fertility rate in the United States.
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My goal is to connect to people the science that is going on behind the scenes without any alarmism.
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Like Trump, Flynn sees jihadism as America's greatest threat, with his rhetoric often veering way past alarmism into irresponsibility.
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Former Obama administration officials said his commentary stoked alarmism in the news media and spread fear among the public.
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In the economic sphere, the best counterpoint to trickle-down alarmism is to explain that it misses the point.
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Panic might seem counterproductive, but we're at a point where alarmism and catastrophic thinking are valuable, for several reasons.
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This is useful as a precursor to later examples of congressional alarmism; Charlie also gleans tactical advice from the proceedings.
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One danger of alarmism, Dr. Keeling said, is that it can make people feel hopeless and throw up their hands.
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Global Health While trying to avoid alarmism, global health agencies are steadily ratcheting up concern about bird flu in Asia.
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"Are we seeing a replay of 1918?" asked The New England Journal of Medicine, a publication not associated with alarmism.
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In a recent Times of Israel piece, "Alarmism saved my family from Hitler," Los Angeles writer Hugo Schwyzer reminds us why.
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Passive watchers: Privately acknowledge climate change is a problem, are concerned but skeptical of the alarmism surrounding it, worried about political blowback.
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He often refers to warnings about global warming as climate "alarmism" and is a vocal critic of President Obama's climate change regulations.
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At one point, Mr. Scott pressed Mr. Nelson on his claims that Russians hacked Florida's election systems, accusing him of baseless alarmism.
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But given the racist history that both Stone Mountain and Mount Rushmore share, is there something more to that question than alarmism alone?
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But local radio commentators accused her of alarmism, and Roberto González, archbishop of the Catholic Church, publicly criticized the government's condom distribution plans.
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Granted that's an odd reaction after reading two books about the catastrophic danger of earthquakes — but neither book wallows in sensationalism or alarmism.
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Others, though, worry that alarmism, far from motivating people, leads to paralysis — too much despair about the future to even bother working on it.
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Warjiyo said there was a misperception among some companies about the cost of hedging and some alarmism over how low the rupiah might go.
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There is no cause for alarmism, as the vast majority of people in Wuhan survived, suffering only from weeks of boredom while on lockdown.
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" Climate change deniers — including a federal lawmaker, Craig Kelly — still seized on the rain as evidence that people had been engaged in "climate alarmism.
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Haley and Graham's alarmism is diplomatically counterproductive, being both a threat inflation with North Korea and an unnecessary offense to one of America's key allies.
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In Iraq, social media alarmism to the contrary, many Christians said that 2018 was better than a lot of Christmases past, thanks to improved security.
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But the reaction ought not to be some kind of new "state of emergency" that some have called for, or other kinds of knee-jerk alarmism.
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The government has aired public service announcements on television explaining how to take cover from an incoming missile, prompting some critics to accuse it of alarmism.
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Indeed, though the American people are being fed a steady diet of alarmism, this is likely a far more perilous moment for the leaders in Tehran.
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Mr. Harrington warned against alarmism about leaving Euratom, saying that imports of "medical radioisotopes" could continue, and that Britain would keep the other benefits of Euratom.
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It is a choice between common sense and alarmism, between bridge building and divisiveness, between strengthening your own country and scoring a goal in your own net.
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Non-Muslim charities don't work that way, and nobody involved thinks it's fair that a third party has to step in because of unfounded suspicions and alarmism.
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The voting rights alarmism that has become so familiar falls silent when it involves extending protections to Americans who live in smaller jurisdictions with larger alien populations.
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"Alarmism should not silence realism ... This administration does not see the benefit of being part of an agreement which impedes U.S. economic growth and jobs," he said.
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The banks pleaded guilty and, despite all the alarmism about "collateral consequences," they all stayed in business, and there were no major shocks to the global economy.
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Reactions to the inauguration speech focused on the alarmism of "American carnage" and the geopolitical policy implications of "America first," as if they were two separate things.
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So its claim to offer a fully-credible policy alternative to climate alarmism awaits a different president, and a very different G.O.P. OpinionEllie Shechet Opinion OpinionPaul Krugman
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It certainly was for Naomi Seibt, the German teenager who denounces "climate alarmism" and has branded herself as the "anti-Greta" activist in opposition to Greta Thunberg.
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As I discovered when I investigated Y22K for its 10th anniversary, the technicians who discussed the problem in the early 1990s were often mocked for their alarmism.
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Is that a commentary on anything, do you think about Davos or about where we are in the world in general, in terms of climate alarmism, et cetera?
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Mr. Ebell of the C.E.I. think tank, which challenges "global warming alarmism" and spearheaded the opposition to the Paris Agreement, was chosen to lead Mr. Trump's environmental transition team.
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THE PROGNOSIS Public health officials and community leaders are walking a fine line between responsiveness and alarmism as they respond to the coronavirus quickly spreading across the United States.
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The Big Oil lawyers also note that: The sanctimonious climate change alarmism only gets worse when you throw in the rhetoric some of the political leaders have used recently.
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Industry participants and academics have for years bemoaned the notional figure as misleading and unhelpful, saying it has exaggerated the risks posed by the swaps market, fuelling alarmism among policymakers.
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"A lot of the alarmism comes from people not working directly at the coal face, so they think a lot about more science-fiction scenarios," says Demis Hassabis of DeepMind.
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This helps explain the second reason alarmism is useful: By defining the boundaries of conceivability more accurately, catastrophic thinking makes it easier to see the threat of climate change clearly.
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Even if the science is not settled, which science never is, alarmism might be one of the most honest narrative approaches we've got in our arsenal, this late in the day.
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Other details of the report, though, promise to raise concerns—starting with the involvement of Smith, who has dismissed climate science—or what he calls "the climate change religion"—as liberal alarmism.
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This side advocates a unflinching alarmism: Climate change is both a moral issue, one that disproportionately impacts minorities and the poor, and an existential issue, in that human civilization is at stake.
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Unlike the bout of "World War 3" memes that emerged in January amid fears about tensions between the US and Iran, coronavirus memes have largely been devoid of alarmism, ironic or otherwise.
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Deepfake propaganda is not a real problem Russell Brandom says alarmism over deepfakes is not justified: Even with deepfake filters' limitations, they could be enough to scare political trolls away from the tactic.
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Maduro and other top officials of Venezuela's ruling Socialist Party have dismissed those migration figures as stemming from politically motivated alarmism and "fake news" meant to justify foreign intervention in the country's affairs.
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This means that every lukewarmer, including especially those in positions of political authority, should be pressed to identify trends that would push them toward greater alarmism and a sharper focus on the issue.
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He understands what European politicians and business leaders have forgotten in their rush to embrace climate alarmism: People will maintain faith in a market system only so long as their living standards improve.
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And liberals who felt ascendant in the Obama years simply couldn't accept this fear as something to be managed and assuaged; to them, it was either ridiculous alarmism or a cloak for bigotry.
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"During the campaign there was a deliberate tactic by the Leave camp to create alarm among elements of the population who have suffered from austerity, and this alarmism is now spilling over," he said.
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While language used to talk about the outbreak, which originated in Wuhan, China, has sometimes veered toward alarmism, particularly on social media, medical professionals maintain that it's not time to freak out just yet.
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The internet of the 1990s was a perfect canvas for alarmism: hard to define, easy to misunderstand, growing rapidly but not yet vital or even familiar to those most inclined to worry about it.
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Democrats say Trump is a racist white supremacist O'Rourke was the first Democratic presidential candidate to lay some blame for the El Paso shooting, which claimed 22 lives at a Walmart, on Trump's immigration alarmism.
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and other top officials of the ruling Socialist Party have dismissed those migration figures as stemming from politically motivated alarmism and "fake news" meant to justify foreign intervention in the country's affairs.
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There's nothing more consistent in national politics than the clockwork-like inconsistency of Republican budget deficit alarmism: They scream about the deficit when a Democrat occupies the White House, and go quiet when a Republican does.
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The second problem with Kerry's alarmism is that the oft-cited official PCBS estimates and projections of Arab population growth have been deliberately inflated to boost the PA's negotiating stance and qualify for more foreign aid.
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We may not be a singular group, but to the youth of the United States, one man's death means more because of what it represents than whatever piece of alarmism CNN thinks we want to see.
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Independent Chinese documentaries provide a vital outlet for learning about the country in a way that is free of Western chauvinism or alarmism, and Wang is one of the best filmmakers working today — in fiction or nonfiction.
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Are we so burned out by fear, alarmism, opacity, and the total lack of regulation that marks Web 2.0, that the unreadable yet consumer-friendly provisions of GDPR give us an odd sense of joy and comfort?
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It has been that despite clear warnings consistent with the evidence available, scientists dedicated to informing the public have struggled to get their voices heard in an atmosphere filled with false charges of alarmism and political motivation.
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There was no conspiracy theory too strange for the staff of The Epoch Times Germany to believe, Albrecht found: chemtrail alarmism, Pizzagate, and discredited tales of children murdered by refugees all found a purchase on its pages.
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"Alarmism can be good — you should be alarmist about this stuff," Ovadya said one January afternoon before calmly outlining a deeply unsettling projection about the next two decades of fake news, artificial intelligence–assisted misinformation campaigns, and propaganda.
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It would be better now for Brazilians to calm down, listen carefully to one another (without pot-banging or blind alarmism) and let the criminal investigations run their course, provided they are carried out according to the law.
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The group, which "questions global warming alarmism" and opposes government climate regulations, according to the website, has vowed to "vigorously fight to quash this subpoena," tied to a broader investigation into the climate science of fossil fuel interests.
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First of all, you might point out that the notion that bin Laden and al Qaeda were existential threats to the US is the kind of alarmism that led to the worst excesses of the war on terror.
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Extreme-right politicians are exaggerating the scale of illegal immigration and unwarranted asylum seeking, and not just in the US. Getting this right will help take away from the authoritarians one of their most potent rhetorical weapons: immigration alarmism.
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While concerning, the attacks were "far from the level of being able to turn off the lights, so there's no alarmism needed," said Robert M. Lee, founder of U.S. critical infrastructure security firm Dragos Inc, who read the report.
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" Graff suggests that the fears of the Cold War planted the seeds of "today's obsessive secrecy culture" and helped shape the alarmism that he rightly notes "has guided so much of our response to the modern threat of terrorism.
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He is an outspoken opponent of the scientific consensus that the climate is changing and human activity is the main cause, and he often denounces what he sees as "alarmism" among people who want to take dramatic action against global warming.
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"Given the fact that North Korea continues to exceed expectations with the rapid acceleration of its program, to discount its abilities would be foolish, hence alarmism is a cautious approach" said Gordon Flake, a Korea specialist at the University of Western Australia.
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The array of U.S. options in the Gulf standoff becomes clear when we step back from alarmism and focus on the immediate challenge: not to defeat Iran militarily, or stop it from every bellicose act, but simply to sustain the status quo.
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What animated all of this justified alarmism wasn't just the secrecy of the bill-writing process—the anti-democratic method of hiding fine print from the public—but that Republicans were using that method to fade the entire purpose of Trumpcare out of public memory.
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V.C.s have spent years dismissing speculation about a private-equity bubble as merely an expression, by know-nothing spectators, of resentment and alarmism; media onlookers, they argue, should talk instead about the triumphal progress of the genuinely great start-ups as they try to solve our most difficult problems.
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Jedediah Purdy's recent review essay in Dissent of alarmist anti-Trump books makes the anti-alarmist case well, and both Daniel Denvir and Thea Riofrancos and Corey Robin have written effective pieces arguing that the rhetoric of anti-Trump alarmism tends to entrench an excessive small-c conservatism of worldview.
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Sure there's some inflation alarmism out there, but its far more grounded in reality than the typical deflation hysteria that guides the Fed This kind of paranoia about inflation strikes me as incorrect and harmful, but it's not unusual for me to disagree with a Trump appointee about an important policy issue.
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Photo: Steven Senne (AP)Here's something for all you lovers of organized physical activity or merely watching it out there: HQ Trivia, the daily live trivia show that debuted to such wild popularity it boosted host Scott Rogowsky to fame before briefly inspiring dystopian alarmism and apocalyptic fan fiction, is branching out into sports.
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In addition to falsely implying that Heartland is a credible organization, the Post's coverage features a glossy photo shoot of Seibt as she ponders her war on "climate alarmism," ensuring significantly greater exposure to an inane public relations stunt that—until the paper got involved—had struggled to garner much attention here in the States.
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Thus, for instance, rather than regard climate change as the successor menace to communism, as Thatcher originally did, her erstwhile chancellor, Nigel Lawson, has argued consistently that the "quasi-religion" of "green alarmism", as he calls it, has replaced the needs for "transcendent values" that communism once provided, leading to all the same evils.
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" This strategy, which combines the rhetoric of supremacy with that of emergency, has long been a feature of Australian immigration politics: In 2001, Prime Minister John Howard ushered in a new era of alarmism over unauthorized immigration by declaring that we, in the "best country in the world in which to live," will "defend our borders.
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The first is that no less than alarmism, lukewarmism can be vulnerable to cherry-picking and selection bias, reaching for any piece of evidence — and when you're dealing with long-term trends, there's a lot of evidence to choose from — that supports its non-catastrophic assumptions, even if the bulk of the data starts to point the other way.
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In the past few months, bids for new solar farms in Mexico and Saudi Arabia have produced the cheapest electrons ever generated on the planet, and Elon Musk (who seems an unbreakable alloy of Borlaugish wizardliness and Vogtian alarmism) has built (in less than 100 days) the world's largest battery, turning South Australia's abundant sun into a 24/7 source of power.
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The current hysterical alarmism in the aftermath of North Korea's very intentionally timed Fourth of July intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test, however, benefits no one more than Pyongyang's leader, Kim Jong Un. He thrives on the attention that reinforces his internal standing, and the more the U.S. saber-rattles, the more it plays into the North Korean threat-victim narrative and unnecessarily heightens tensions.
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But since November there has been a kind of service journalism for alarmism on this issue, in which lavish attention for far-fringe white nationalists who wear button-down shirts and host D.C. press conferences is paired with reports on a Trump-fueled hate crime wave whose scope may be overstated and whose most vivid illustrations have a way of being less than true.
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Perhaps the reason Canada, China, France, Spain and dozens of other Paris signatories added carbon dioxide emissions – while at the same time chastising America for working toward energy independence – is because the leaders of those countries know what skeptics of global warming alarmism have known for decades: The world is much better off with affordable energy than it is trying to combat a problem many scientists say doesn't exist.
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A conservative think tank that seeks to battle global warming "alarmism" celebrated during President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's first year in office, according to correspondence obtained by a Freedom of Information Act request.
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