The views expressed here on human-caused climate change run the gamut. It’s a hoax. It’s a catastrophe. It’s a crisis. It’s a manageable trend. It can be fixed with a rising tax on carbon. It can be fixed by making people rich. It can be controlled by dumping something in the air or oceans.
To try to rein in and focus the discussion just a bit, I’ve decided to put up this post as a work in progress, aimed at establishing a list of basic facets of the climate and energy challenge that are not in reasonable dispute (with more to come). As I’ve written for years (as in a feature for AARP’s magazine last summer), the yelling has distracted too many people for too long from the core ideas that are powerfully established.
Heaps of scientists would say that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has already established the scientific foundation for society. Others here (and elsewhere) contend that that effort is tainted by group think. The I.P.C.C. does have faults (as does this blog and just about any other discussion of a complicated heap of science).
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