I am old enough to remember being told repeatedly in the late 1980s through the 1990s that we were 8-9 years from a “tipping point” regarding climate change. I remember being told Manhattan could be inhabitable by the early 2000s if we did not act. (And before that, we were told that humankind was doomed by the 1980s due to over-population.)
Such doomsday proclamations, while good marketing and great for fundraising, are unscientific; and in the long-run are misguided and could be damaging to scientific research and future funding when these “sky-is-falling” announcements turnoff the taxpaying public.
I am old enough to remember being told repeatedly in the late 1980s through the 1990s that we were 8-9 years from a “tipping point” regarding climate change. I remember being told Manhattan could be inhabitable by the early 2000s if we did not act. (And before that, we were told that humankind was doomed by the 1980s due to over-population.)
Such doomsday proclamations, while good marketing and great for fundraising, are unscientific; and in the long-run are misguided and could be damaging to scientific research and future funding when these “sky-is-falling” announcements turnoff the taxpaying public.