Slowly Warming to Climate Change

IF 0.3 4区 社会学 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
J. Hannon
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Patrick Michaels, a former professor at the University of Virginia, has built a second career at the libertarian Cato Institute issuing data-laden reports against mainstream climate change science.1 In his latest book, Lukewarming: The New Climate Science that Changes Everything, Michaels joins Paul Knappenberger, the assistant director for the Cato Institute’s Center for the Study of Science, to introduce new arguments updating Michaels’ long-held thesis that man-made warming is a reality but that “[t]he atmosphere isn’t warming nearly as fast as is predicted in the forecasts . . . .”2 Forecasts of substantial warming are a problem, Michaels believes, because they “serve as the basis for some of the most onerous environmental regulations ever proposed (and adopted).”3 In Michaels’s view, reducing fossil fuel emissions to control the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere not only involves introducing suspect regulations, but may in fact be impossible.4 “We simply don’t know,” Michaels asserts, “how to power or develop a modern economy either without emitting vast quantities of carbon dioxide and/or proliferating nuclear fusion worldwide. . . .”5 This review first summarizes the structure and content of Michaels’s argument in Lukewarming. It then considers the significance of Michaels’s ideas in relation to the climate policy of the current presidential administration. The review concludes with a comment on Lukewarming’s place in the progression of American attitudes towards climate change.
气候变化缓慢变暖
帕特里克·迈克尔斯(Patrick Michaels)曾是弗吉尼亚大学(University of Virginia)的教授,他在奉行自由主义的卡托研究所(Cato Institute)建立了第二职业,发表了反对主流气候变化科学的数据丰富的报告在他的新书《不冷不热》中:在《改变一切的新气候科学》一书中,迈克尔斯与卡托研究所科学研究中心助理主任保罗·纳彭伯杰一起,引入了新的论点,更新了迈克尔斯长期坚持的论点,即人为变暖是一个现实,但“大气变暖的速度远没有预测中预测的那么快. . . .”2迈克尔斯认为,对大幅变暖的预测是一个问题。因为它们“是有史以来提出(并通过)的一些最繁重的环境法规的基础。在迈克尔斯看来,减少化石燃料的排放以控制大气中二氧化碳的含量不仅涉及引入可疑的法规,而且实际上可能是不可能的“我们根本不知道,”迈克尔斯断言,“如何在不排放大量二氧化碳和/或在世界范围内扩散核聚变的情况下为现代经济提供动力或发展. . . .”5这篇评论首先总结了迈克尔斯在《变暖》一书中论点的结构和内容。然后,它考虑了迈克尔斯的想法对当前总统政府气候政策的重要性。这篇评论最后评论了“不冷不暖”在美国人对待气候变化态度演变中的地位。
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期刊介绍: Ecology Law Quarterly"s primary function is to produce two high quality journals: a quarterly print version and a more frequent, cutting-edge online journal, Ecology Law Currents. UC Berkeley School of Law students manage every aspect of ELQ, from communicating with authors to editing articles to publishing the journals. In addition to featuring work by leading environmental law scholars, ELQ encourages student writing and publishes student pieces.
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