Which then leads to a very different characterization of the problem in which carbon emissions are really just a by - product of a cheap energy consumerist society, and the problem isn't to reduce emissions, it is to restructure our entire societies (and our conceptions of them) so that we no longer depend on growth in resource consumption as our definition of human progress. (realclimate.org)
Because all four participating integrated assessment models, and all receiving climate models, use different characterizations and definitions of land use types and transitions, a harmonization step was necessary. (link.springer.com)
That being said, rather than having different characterization of victims, do you adopt the Scots law approach of having 3 different verdicts, guilty, not proven (in effect, equivalent to our «not guilty»), and innocent. (slaw.ca)