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Which aspects of global warming are best addressed by a «command and control» regulatory approach?
Not exact matches
Re # 8 (and to expand on # 13): I also think that a basic strategy
of the
global warming deniers is to focus on one
aspect of the science over
which there is some combination
of real and manufactured dispute and then try to make people think that this is the one crucial piece
of evidence on
which the whole theory
of anthropogenic
warming rests... and thus that the dispute over this
aspect throws the whole theory into question.
Well maybe not all
aspects of global warming, but researchers at UCLA are now reporting that climate change is reducing the Santa Ana winds,
which exacerbate fires along the coasts
of southern California each year.
Schneider's approach to climate policy, comes up during a discussion
of the enduring uncertainty surrounding the most consequential
aspects of global warming, particularly the near - term rate at
which sea levels will rise as ice sheets melt and seawater
warms.
Other
aspects of global warming's broad footprint on the world's ecosystems include changes in the abundance
of more than 80 percent
of the thousands
of species included in population studies; major poleward shifts in living ranges as
warm regions become hot, and cold regions become
warmer; major increases (in the south) and decreases (in the north)
of the abundance
of plankton,
which forms the critical base
of the ocean's food chain; the transformation
of previously innocuous insect species like the Aspen leaf miner into pests that have damaged millions
of acres
of forest; and an increase in the range and abundance
of human pathogens like the cholera - causing bacteria Vibrio, the mosquito - borne dengue virus, and the ticks that carry Lyme disease - causing bacteria.
The five and half hours
of programmes
which attack the thesis (and there have been many more
which savage other
aspects of environmentalism) express absolute certainty that manmade
global warming isn't happening.