Thursday, October 29, 2009

A Primer on Climate Change Denial

There are basically four arguments made by those in "climate change denial":

(1) The world is not warming.
(2) Climate variability is natural and not anthropogenic.

Climate scientists who have participated on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) consider the first two issues as having been answered by current research. The following two issues are areas of active concern and research:

(3) Future climate changes and impacts will be small.
(4) We can't stop climate change and, in any event, it will cost too much.

I will comment on all these points in future posts as the topics come up in the Global Warming Debate.

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