However, Lynas often misinterprets studies that are key to his conclusions, sometimes dramatically so. Throughout Six Degrees, Lynas cites up-to-date peer reviewed science to support its claims. Thanks to Max Daniel and Abie Rohrig for comments. I shared this post with Mark Lynas before publishing. The consistent effect that this has is to bias his conclusions in a pessimistic direction. Throughout, Lynas misinterprets evidence and ignores nuance. However, in my opinion, Six Degrees is very disappointing. Like Lynas, I also think climate change is an important problem: I helped to set up the Founders Pledge Climate Change Fund, which has moved millions of dollars to climate change charities. I recommended him as a guest for the 80,000 Hours podcast and introduced him to the team there. I have invited him to speak at several events. I am a fan of Lynas’ other work on nuclear power and GM food. At 6☌, we face possible human extinction (p. At 5☌, humanity would cling on in small refuges surrounded by deserts, forests in flame and rising seas (p. He claims that, at 4☌ above pre-industrial levels, advanced industrial civilisation would be tottering (p. In the new edition of his book Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency, Mark Lynas argues climate change will be truly catastrophic. Reviewed work: Mark Lynas, Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency, HarperCollins Publishers (2020).
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