Fourth, saying that «waiting another decade for transformative policy and full commitments to fossil - free economies» would be a «
catastrophic failure of policy» with «irreversible and deleterious repercussions for humanity's remaining time on Earth» is sheer fearmongering without a shred of scientific evidence.
In previous entries, Ethicsandclimate.org examined the
failure of the US media to communicate about: (a) the nature
of the strong scientific consensus about human - induced climate change, (b) the magnitude
of greenhouse gas emissions reductions necessary to prevent
catastrophic climate change, (c) the practical significance for
policy that follows from understanding climate change as essentially an ethical problem, (e) the consistent barrier that the United States has been to finding a global solution to climate change in international climate negotiations, and (f) the
failure of the US media to help educate US citizens about the well - financed, well - organized climate change disinformation campaign.