FOLLOW THE MONEY: In speaking to
politically fuelled climate change and the so called anthropogenic questions surrounding it, it might be prudent to first ask WHY people have such a need to suicidally abandon themselves to fundamentalist type Armageddon laden fear mongering by offering to pay up front before depopulating themselves, — all for the sake of the planet.
Not exact matches
Indeed, to the extent that the Obama administration has been able to make substantive progress on
climate change, it has been through a combination of smaller scale, less
politically visible approaches like
fuel efficiency standards or EPA rules, rather than pushing for society - transforming solutions like an economy - wide price on carbon.25
«Just as the concept of a «hiatus» or «pause» began to dominate the discourse in our field because of factors external to the science itself (i.e. the
politically - motivated insistence by
climate change deniers and fossil -
fueled politicians that there was a «pause» or «hiatus» in warming), so too are some authors caught up in a «Groundhog Day» exercise of writing repeated articles about how there wasn't a pause.»
Long - term
climate change fueled by a buildup of atmospheric carbon emissions is a controversial notion
politically, but it's one accepted as fact by most scientists.
First, and most
politically, we need to recognise that anthropogenic
climate change is driven primarily by the economic logic of global fossil
fuel extraction, and only to a lesser extent by the social practices and infrastructure that shape national emissions.