Book contents
- Climate Rationality
- Climate Rationality
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction and Overview
- Part I The Costs of Precautionary Policy
- Part II The Other Side of the Story
- 10 But Is It True?
- 11 “Born in Politics”
- 12 Settling Science and Propagandizing for Action
- 13 Recent Observed Climate Change in Longer-Term Perspective
- 14 Beyond CO2
- 15 Projecting Future Climate from Computer Models and Far, Far Distant Earth History
- 16 The Precautionary Social Cost of Carbon
- Part III Toward Rational Climate Policy
- References
- Index
13 - Recent Observed Climate Change in Longer-Term Perspective
from Part II - The Other Side of the Story
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2021
- Climate Rationality
- Climate Rationality
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction and Overview
- Part I The Costs of Precautionary Policy
- Part II The Other Side of the Story
- 10 But Is It True?
- 11 “Born in Politics”
- 12 Settling Science and Propagandizing for Action
- 13 Recent Observed Climate Change in Longer-Term Perspective
- 14 Beyond CO2
- 15 Projecting Future Climate from Computer Models and Far, Far Distant Earth History
- 16 The Precautionary Social Cost of Carbon
- Part III Toward Rational Climate Policy
- References
- Index
Summary
The EPA’s Endangerment Finding relied entirely upon IPCC Assessment Reports (and, to a lesser extent, USGCRP Assessments) as supplying more than enough evidence that rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations have caused changes in various measures of climate and that without steps to reduce anthropogenic CO2, climate changes will get event worse in the future. Having already explained how both the IPCC and USGCRP have developed into science advocacy organizations, rather than assessment institutions, in this chapter I begin my brief critical analysis of the output produced by the IPCC. I focus on the IPCC because its reports are the primary basis for not only the Endangerment Finding but for precautionary US climate policy more generally.
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- Climate RationalityFrom Bias to Balance, pp. 335 - 384Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021