Simon Sharpe, "Five Times Faster: Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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The Science of Climate Change
If it wasn't for the scientists, we wouldn't know anything about climate change. We need far more risk assessment and risk assessment asks what do we care most about? I'll give a couple of examples to show how that gets you to a very different place so let's say you're talking about rising global sea levels. There is a plausible worst case scenario where that could happen within the next 200 years. That's quite shocking when you think London has a history of at least 2000 years. The research is not focusing on telling us what we really need to know. Scientists are veryverse to force negatives; they actually have opposite kind of Arab bias. It has to be co-produced by
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