Is climate change humanity's greatest-ever risk management failure? | Dana Nuccitelli | Environment | theguardian.com
Managing the risks posed by climate change is not a high priority for the public as a whole, despite the fact that a climate catastrophe this century is a very real possibility, and that such an event would have adverse impacts on all of us.Twitter / dana1981: @MichaelEMann I just depuffed ...
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This isn't some slim one-in-a-million risk; we're looking at seriously damaging climate consequences in the most likely, business-as-usual scenario.
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Yet in a recent interview with NPR, climate scientist Judith Curry, who has a reputation for exaggerating climate science uncertainties, claimed that based on those uncertainties,
"I can't say myself that [doing nothing] isn't the best solution."
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Curry is essentially arguing that she's not convinced we should take action to avoid what she believes is a very possible climate catastrophe.
@MichaelEMann I just depuffed the@NPR Judith Curry glorification http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/aug/23/climate-change-greatest-risk-management-failure …
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