CLIMATE CHANGE HYSTERIA IS -- 'Self defeating'


One of the UK's top climate scientists warned in a BBC News website article that, although climate change was "a reality", the language being used by some campaigners was becoming exaggerated and could weaken the arguments for policy change.


Mike Hulme, of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, also said he was concerned over the phenomenon of "catastrophic" climate change.
"That type of language is actually self defeating," he said. "What it does it disempowers - the language of fear and of terror and of anguish - it disempowers people."

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