Maybe I should have avoided the term “alarmist” in that context, since it often implies unjustified predictions of danger, which I obviously did not mean to imply. I’m not interested in arguing over definitions.
Good, I just wanted to be clear. In my experience that “alarmist” usually does strongly imply that the predictions of danger are unjustified, and that interpretation (which I presume most readers default to) risks changing the intended meaning of your statement that “climate scientists[...] are often quite alarmist.”
Now that I re-read your top-level post knowing what you meant, I think I understand much better what you are saying.
Maybe I should have avoided the term “alarmist” in that context, since it often implies unjustified predictions of danger, which I obviously did not mean to imply. I’m not interested in arguing over definitions.
Good, I just wanted to be clear. In my experience that “alarmist” usually does strongly imply that the predictions of danger are unjustified, and that interpretation (which I presume most readers default to) risks changing the intended meaning of your statement that “climate scientists[...] are often quite alarmist.”
Now that I re-read your top-level post knowing what you meant, I think I understand much better what you are saying.