alarmism
noun
alarm·ism
ə-ˈlär-ˌmi-zəm 
: the often unwarranted exciting of fears or warning of danger
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This facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country.
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Olivia Young, CBS News, 17 Dec. 2025
This is not the language of alarmism, but a statement of fact.
—Paulo Ilich Bacca, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
Teddy’s reasoning is a confusion of save-the-world alarmism, garden-variety derangement, unhealed trauma, and single-minded revenge.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
So amid Canada’s reckoning with reality, the climate alarmism has quietly been shelved.
—Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 3 July 2025
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Olivia Young, CBS News, 17 Dec. 2025
This is not the language of alarmism, but a statement of fact.
—Paulo Ilich Bacca, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
Teddy’s reasoning is a confusion of save-the-world alarmism, garden-variety derangement, unhealed trauma, and single-minded revenge.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
So amid Canada’s reckoning with reality, the climate alarmism has quietly been shelved.
—Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 3 July 2025
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“Alarmism.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alarmism. Accessed 27 Jan. 2026.
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