Likewise, many populations are likely to have been already impacted when first assessed, leaving them vulnerable to the «shifting baseline» effect, which
prevents robust evaluation of the loss of their ecological role (electronic supplementary material, table S1).
Rather than public
evaluation of the evidence, independent validation of the models, and
robust public debate over adaptation vs mitigation, climate alarmists like Lewandowsky et al. try to frustrate the scientific method,
prevent debate, and impose their incredibly expensive mitigation policies.