POL101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 0: Richard Lindzen, Fred Singer, Climate Change Mitigation
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This article provides some of the interpretations and perspectives of climate change, and explains what it is about climate and humanity that supports them. It explains that even among those who agree that climate change is a problem there are serious differences about solutions, reflecting in part disagreements about causes. Almost everything about climate change is contested: whether it is occurring, anthropogenic, problem, what would be a solution and what count as a solution. Climate is an abstraction from the weather that people experience. In a highly variable system, it is difficult to distinguish climate change from variability. The very idea of climate change involves a particular paradigm call it the stability/change" paradigm. even from within the stability/change paradigm, we need only to shift the temporal dimension to see change as variability: problems: Even if we accept that climate change is occurring, as we should, we do not yet have a problem.