{"id":54246,"date":"2020-07-18T08:37:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T13:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54246"},"modified":"2020-07-18T08:37:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T13:37:53","slug":"the-sky-is-falling-yes-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54246","title":{"rendered":"The Sky Is Falling \u2013 Yes \u2013 No"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Sky Is Falling \u2013 Yes \u2013 No<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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Image Source: Joseph Pennell \u2013 Public Domain<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sky is falling is one of the more disturbing thoughts in society today, as to whether climate change is on a fast track collision course with doomsday amidst a collapsing society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In that regard, according to the details of a scathing review by ScientistsWarning.org (\u201cSW\u201d) of Jem Bendell\u2019s wildly popular \u201cDeep Adaptation\u201d the answer is no, not yet. Society is not ready to keel over, as postulated in Bendell\u2019s paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whew! Climate change handwringers, sleepless nights, can take a deep breath, exhale and relax based upon the critique of Bendell\u2019s very popular paper, which crystal balls the \u201cend to society\u201d within only decades, or less, depending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In strong terms, ScientistsWarning.org\u2019s thought-provoking rebuttal expresses outrage over Professor Jem Bendell\u2019s doomsday thesis in its article entitled \u201cThe Faulty Science, Doomism, and Flawed Conclusion of Deep Adaptation\u201d d\/d July 14, 2020 by Thomas Nicholas, Galen Hall, and Colleen Schmidt, fact-checked by scientists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The full article can be accessed at www.ScientistsWarning.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accordingly, within the opening two paragraphs of SW\u2019s rebuttal: \u201cIn the past few years we have seen a troubling trend: a few figures in the climate movement using science \u2014 or what looks like science \u2014 to justify increasingly dire and prophetic, but ultimately unsupported claims about the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bendell\u2019s Deep Adaptation became an overnight cult classic amongst many on the front lines of environmental justice, a brooding downcast thesis of the inevitability of \u201csocial collapse\u201d because of the ravages of climate change\/global warming, meaning there is no way out, humanity\u2019s trapped in an insidious fireball of doom that\u2019ll hit hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SW takes issue with Bendell: \u201c(1) cherry-picking data (2) citing false reports (3) forwarding logical fallacies (4) disregard of robust scientific consensus.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In SW\u2019s words: \u201cNeither social science nor the best available climate science support Deep Adaptation\u2019s core premise: that near-term societal collapse due to climate change is inevitable<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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