An oil industry association in the US attempted to
influence climate change reporting by spreading uncertainty about the
causes of global warming, while
environmental groups can tend to go the
other way and highlight the most alarming elements of climate change.
Attempts to significantly
influence climate impacts based on just controlling CO2 and a few
other greenhouse gases emissions is an inadequate and incomplete policy for this purpose.The goal should be to seek politically and technologically practical ways (with minimal cost and maximum benefit) to reduce the vulnerability of the environment and society to the entire spectrum of human -
caused and natural risks including those from climate, but also from all
other environmental and social threats.