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There have been debates on the best responses to slow global warming, and their timing. The debates are around the specific actions for climate change mitigation and climate change adaptation, or climate action in general. See for example: Economic analysis of climate change; Climate change denial#Delaying climate change mitigation measures
This is a list of statements by major scientific organizations about climate change, that have issued formal statements of opinion, classifies those organizations according to whether they concur with the IPCC view (i.e. the scientific consensus on climate change), are non-committal, or dissent from it.
Climate change — Global warming • Global dimming • Fossil fuels • Sea level rise • Greenhouse gas • Ocean acidification • Shutdown of thermohaline circulation • Environmental impact of the coal industry • Urban heat islands • Flooding; Environmental degradation — Loss of biodiversity • Habitat destruction • Invasive ...
The timeline of international climate politics is a list of events significant to the politics of climate change. Since 1995, yearly United Nations conferences of the parties have been the primary forum for international discussion of political response to the threat of climate change .
Climate change remains on the backburner of the 2024 election following little mention of environmental policy during the first -- and possibly only -- debate between the two presidential candidates.
The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-316-63132-4. Christiana Figueres; Tom Rivett-Carnac (2020). The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis. Manilla Press. ISBN 978-1-838-770-82-2. Anatol Lieven (2020). Climate Change and the Nation State. Penguin Random House.
The first 2020 Democratic debates proved candidates, commentators and moderators still don't know how to talk about climate change.
There is indeed a consensus about global warming in the scientific community (see scientific opinion on climate change and attribution of recent climate change) that has just been reinforced by the IPCC AR4 SPM release (and will be further explained in the full AR4 reports later this year). The number of scientists opposing this consensis is ...