Scientific Research Is Unreliable, Unreliable Scientists Report

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which sadly at times means an alarmist attitude instead of a scientific one...

Don't confuse the scientists with the media.

You only need to read a single paper to see that it's filled to the brim with if's, but's and general uncertainty. It's only when it's translated into media terms that it turns apocalyptic. For one thing, the media almost always reports on the worst of the many predictions made in a paper.