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Don't be afraid to talk about the costs of dealing with climate change

  • Written by Brian Greenhill, Associate Professor of Political Science, University at Albany, State University of New York
Climate change denial, underwater.Matt Brown/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

Climate advocates have struggled to persuade half of the U.S. public of the need to do more to slow the pace of global warming.

But even as climate scientists are sounding louder and louder alarms about the urgency of the situation, they disagree among themselves about how to proceed.

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