Thread by @JacquelynGill

@ClimateBen This is incredibly irresponsible and harmful. Tacking “BREAKING” onto an unattributed statement is bad enough, but you’re also misrepresenting Gavin—he never said that. You need to delete this. What you’re doing is wrong, Ben, and I think you know better.

@ClimateBen To support your first tweet, you link to two papers about impacts to support your statement, and you misrepresent and exaggerate the findings of both (neither of which Gavin was involved in). Most people won’t actually read the articles, let alone the papers you posted.

@ClimateBen The climate crisis needs no exaggeration to drive action. But threads like this make it harder and harder for scientists to debunk doomist narratives, and as a result, we’re getting attacked by people citing our own work on climate change, who accuse us of downplaying the crisis.

@ClimateBen Buried in a link thread, you later admit there’s never a point past which we shouldn’t act, but most people won’t read past “BREAKING: NASA says we’re doomed!” Every time someone like you does this, my inbox is filled with messages from anxious youth, asking if there’s any point.

@ClimateBen I don’t know if this is how you process your own anxiety, or if you’re trying to leverage others’ anxiety to build your platform, or if you genuinely think you’re helping. But many experts have tried to explain to you how harmful this is. Please, I’m begging you: listen to us.

@ClimateBen People know there’s a crisis. Inaction on climate change isn’t due to people not being anxious or sacrificing enough. It’s because of powerful efforts by the fossil fuel industry, which you somehow only mention ONCE in here, in reference to air pollution minimizing warming (!).

@ClimateBen And then, despite linking to a number of popular press articles and other publicly available resources from scientific agencies, you argue that we have to be our own experts, which further undermines the actual experts whose work doomers cite but somehow also denigrate.

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