Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-84b7d79bbc-tsvsl Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-28T17:26:12.742Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

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

Jason S. Johnston
Affiliation:
University of Virginia Law School
Get access

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.

Type
Chapter
Information
Climate Rationality
From Bias to Balance
, pp. 335 - 384
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×