ABSTRACT
I grouped the 100 documents described in the previous chapter into ‘families of arguments’. There are at least 11 coherent arguments about the hypothesis that human activities contribute to climate change, the degree of threat that results from possible climate change, the basis for acting in response to the threat and the specific actions that are necessary. I have termed these families of arguments ‘No Problem!’, ‘Climate Change Could Be Good for You’, ‘Science Provides Knowledge about Climate Change’, ‘More Modernization Is the Cure’ (six different families – ‘Focus on the Political Process’, ‘Reform the Energy System’, ‘Mitigate Climate Change’, ‘Prepare to Adapt’, ‘Get the Prices Right’ and ‘Mitigate and Adapt’), ‘Inequality Is the Problem’, and ‘Rift with Nature’.
