Is is possible to judge a book by its title? Roger Pielke, Jr. believes so. But he's making much ado of nothing in this post, which Marc Morano has, ironically, turned into a splashy and hugely misleading headline on Climate Depot. Here's the quick background: at Seed magazine, Michael Mann participated in a forum on climate change "framing," in which he explained the reasoning behind the title of a recent book he co-authored, called "Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming." As Mann freely admits:
The purists among my colleagues would rightly point out that the potential future climate changes we describe, are, technically speaking, projections rather than predictions because the climate models are driven by hypothetical pathways of future fossil fuel burning (i.e. conceivable but not predicted futures). But Dire Projections doesn't quite roll off the tongue. And it doesn't convey"‰"”"‰in the common vernacular"‰"”"‰what the models indicate: Climate change could pose ...
