Indeed, this media frenzy has little or no scientific backing. One of England’s foremost climatologists, Mike Hulme, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, points out that green militancy and megaphone journalism use “catastrophe and chaos as unguided weapons with which forlornly to threaten society into behavioral change.”
确实，媒体炒作基本上没有什么科学依据。英格兰最著名的气候学家、坦道尔气候变化研究中心主任麦克·赫尔姆指出，激进环保主义和媒体炒作使用“灾难和混乱作为无的放矢的武器来悲惨地胁迫社会改变行为”。用他的话来说，“我们需要深呼吸，暂停一下。”