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The great ‘known unknowns’ with climate change in the Lawyers Weekly
To first understand how climate change impacts the law, it’s prudent to understand its fundamental principles, write Professor Andrew Pitman and Professor Katrin Meissner.
The climate is changing due to carbon dioxide emissions and other greenhouse gases, as well as associated with land cover change.
- Professor Andrew Pitman and Professor Katrin Meissner
- Lawyers Weekly
The role of humans in increasing greenhouse gas emissions, and accelerating land cover change, and thereby changing our climate is not in dispute. It is, in the immortal language of Donald Rumsfeld, a “known known”.
Unfortunately for those interested in climate change, there are also “known unknowns” and “unknown unknowns”.
There is also a…