Jem Bendell – The Best Selling Climate Doomer Who is Wrecking the Alarmist Movement
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Michael Mann – “Doom-mongering has overtaken denial as a threat and as a tactic. … they are led down a path of disengagement. They unwittingly do the bidding of fossil fuel interests by giving up.”
Doomist or realist? Meet the scientist who says the climate collapse has already begun
By Nick O’Malley August 23, 2024 — 5.00am
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Just shy of 40 years old he was made a full professor. He was publishing papers in prominent journals and his two books had been well received.
“I was living in a beautiful part of the world, the Lake District in the UK,” he recalls, speaking from his new home in Bali as he prepares to travel to Sydney for this weekend’s Festival of Dangerous Ideas. Then, while preparing for his inaugural professorial speech, Bendell dived back into the scientific literature to check in on how quickly the climate was heating, and how well our efforts were going at cutting emissions to slow the process on rates of habitat and biodiversity loss.
What he read shattered him. “I’d always thought, you know, we had the rest of the century to change, otherwise we would be in a pickle.” He began to tuck the scientific papers and new stories that bothered him most into a folder. These were the sorts of stories many will remember. Stories about ancient frozen gasses burping from the Arctic tundra decades before scientists predicted such a thing might happen, weird heat spikes in Pacific. They were stories about events he had read about, but not expected the world to see during his lifetime.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/08/22/jem-bendell-the-best-selling-climate-doomer-who-is-wrecking-the-alarmist-movement/
