'Lukewarmers' frustrate strong mitigation policies

T

he “lukewarmers” who don’t deny, but pay lip service to climate change are probably the biggest obstacle to the implementation of strong greenhouse gas mitigation policies.



Tamsin Edwards -
"knee-deep"
in climate change.

Tamsin Edwards discusses the emergence of this definitive class in a Guardian article, “The lukewarmers don’t deny climate change. But they say the outlook’s fine”.

She writes: “Lukewarmers have much more mainstream views than the easy stereotype of the denier.

“They agree carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, that the world is warming, and that a significant fraction of this is down to humans

“In terms of policy, they typically support adaptation to climate change. But they differ from mainstream views because they’re not convinced there’s a substantial risk that future warming could be large or its impacts severe, or that strong mitigation policies are desirable.”