Responding to the Climate Threat Essays on Humanity’s Greatest Challenge /
This book demonstrates how robust and evolving science can be relevant to public discourse about climate policy. Fighting climate change is the ultimate societal challenge, and the difficulty is not just in the wrenching adjustments required to cut greenhouse emissions and to respond to change alrea...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2023.
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| Vydání: | 1st ed. 2023. |
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| On-line přístup: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96372-9 |
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- Five science questions that ought to be asked at the debate
- Key messages about climate change: an introduction to a series
- Evidence shows warming of the planet
- The evidence is compelling on human activity as the principle cause of global warming
- Extreme events “presage worse to come” in a warming climate
- Multiple extreme climate events can combine to produce catastrophic damages
- Vigorous action needed, and soon, on climate change
- Rejoining the fight against climate change is in the U.S. national interest. .