These «coping strategies» are designed to defend against or manage the unpleasant emotions associated with «waking up» to the
dangers of a warming globe.
As the
consequences of a warming globe become more apparent over the next decades, a readily available, seemingly effective alternative to emission - cutting could determine the kind of action taken.
Now, without going to the trouble of a Baysian probability analysis (which would just be putting numbers to educated guesswork), I think there is good reason to consider the Russian Heatwave sufficiently improbable on the assumption of no warming (relative to its probability on the assumption of GW) that it is worth independant recognition as evidence
of the warming globe instead of just being burried under a mob of other statistics.
Researchers found that around the 15,000 - foot - high Tibetan Plateau, average temperatures have soared by 0.4 degrees Celsius -LRB-.72 degrees Fahrenheit) per decade (twice the
average of the warming globe), while precipitation has risen by 12 percent since 1960.
A paper by Tim Kasser and myself28 draws on psychological research into the various «coping strategies» we might use to defend against or manage the unpleasant emotions associated with «waking up» to the
dangers of a warming globe.