Re:Massive Government Report Says Climate Is Warming and Hum...
by dragonwriter on Thursday November 02, 2017 @06:11PM
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> I think 1-5 is mostly settled,
Denialist still deny, generally, 3-5, and sometimes 2. Scientifically they may be settled, politically they are not.
6 is also essentially scientifically settled (we can't prevent it, we can probably reduce the rate at which things get worse, and may be able to limit the maximum effect.)
7 is either moot due to six or misphrased (there is a potential trade-off in the balance that goes into mitigating the severity of warming and that devoted to mitigating the severity of the consequences of warming without addressing the warming itself, but these are both forms of mitigation.)
8 is, again, moot because of 6, unless “prevent” is really “mitigate the severity of the warming”.
Denialist still deny, generally, 3-5, and sometimes 2. Scientifically they may be settled, politically they are not.
6 is also essentially scientifically settled (we can't prevent it, we can probably reduce the rate at which things get worse, and may be able to limit the maximum effect.)
7 is either moot due to six or misphrased (there is a potential trade-off in the balance that goes into mitigating the severity of warming and that devoted to mitigating the severity of the consequences of warming without addressing the warming itself, but these are both forms of mitigation.)
8 is, again, moot because of 6, unless “prevent” is really “mitigate the severity of the warming”.