Conservatives Need to Engage in Climate Policy Debate
Posted on AllSides August 21st, 2021
From The Right
OPINION
Last week, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its Sixth Assessment Report on the science of global climate change. The report reaffirms that human activity, and the burning of fossil fuels in particular, has contributed to an increase in global mean temperatures, and summarizes the growing evidence that this warming is having observable effects across the globe, including an increase in heat waves and changes in precipitation patterns.
Somewhat more controversially, the IPCC report outlines a range of potential scenarios for future climate change, some of which are more...