Re:Climate threats now dominate long-term risks, survey of g...
by Brakenshire on Thursday January 16, 2020 @05:40AM
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Indeed, the first part of his post was reasonable, it is true that other factors are extremely important or perhaps dominant in some of these cases, loss of habitat and insecticide use for the loss of insects, and for wildfires, suburban settlement into forests leading to suppression of regular burning and a consequent build-up on the fuel load.
But then he takes a totally unjustified leap into using a quote from an insurance executive to draw sweeping conclusions about academic institutions and climate science in general. Very strange.
Climate change itself is well-established scientifically. It is indeed hard to determine exactly which changes in the earth's ecology are a direct product of climate change. But it is important avoid a jump from this to "well, not such an emergency after all". This is because a wide of ecological and local climate conditions are driven by temperature.