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Rott N. и др. Trump Administration Weakens Auto Emissions Standards // NPR. 2020. 31 марта. URL: https://www.npr.org/2020/03/31/824431240/trump-administration-weakens-auto-emissions-rolling-back-key-climate-policy.

Kingsley P. Trump Says California Can Learn from Finland on Fires. Is He Right? // The New York Times. 2018. 18 ноября. URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/18/world/europe/finland-california-wildfires-trump-raking.html.

Rubin J. Trump Shows the Rank Dishonesty of Climate-Change Deniers // The Washington Post. 2018. 15 октября. URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/10/15/trump-shows-the-rank-dishonesty-of-climate-change-deniers/.

Dawsey J. и др. Trump on Climate Change: ‘People Like Myself, We Have Very High Levels of Intelligence but We’re Not Necessarily Such Believers’ // The Washington Post. 2018. 27 ноября. URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-on-climate-change-people-like-myself-we-have-very-high-levels-of-intelligence-but-were-not-necessarily-such-believers/2018/11/27/722f0184-f27e-11e8-aeea-b85fd44449f5_story.html; Viser M. ‘Just a Lot of Alarmism’: Trump’s Skepticism of Climate Science Is Echoed across GOP // The Washington Post. 2018. 2 декабря. URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/just-a-lot-of-alarmism-trumps-skepticism-of-climate-science-is-echoed-across-gop/2018/12/02/f6ee9ca6-f4de-11e8-bc79-68604ed88993_story.html.

Dennis B. Major Trump Administration Climate Report Says Damage Is ‘Intensifying across the Country’ // The Washington Post. 2018. 23 ноября. URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2018/11/23/major-trump-administration-climate-report-says-damages-are-intensifying-across-country/; Christensen J. и др. Climate Change Will Shrink U.S. Economy and Kill Thousands // CNN. 2018. 23 ноября. URL: https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/23/health/climate-change-report-bn/index.html.

Нет единодушия по поводу громких заявлений о том, что глобальное потепление сделает планету непригодной для жизни или приведет к исчезновению нашего вида. Тем не менее нет сомнений, что оно радикально изменит жизнь человечества, принесет неисчислимые бедствия и миллионы смертей. Это не говоря уже о массовом вымирании других видов и утрате биоразнообразия. Watson R. Loss of Biodiversity Is Just as Catastrophic as Climate Change // The Guardian. 2019. 6 мая. URL: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/06/biodiversity-climate-change-mass-extinctions; Shellenberger M. Why Apocalyptic Claims About Climate Change Are Wrong // Forbes. 2019. 25 ноября. URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/11/25/why-everything-they-say-about-climate-change-is-wrong/#5cea81cb12d6; Mooney C. Scientists Challenge Magazine Story about ‘Uninhabitable Earth’ // The Washington Post. 2017. 12 июля. URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/07/12/scientists-challenge-magazine-story-about-uninhabitable-earth/; Christensen J. 250,000 Deaths a Year from Climate Change Is a ‘Conservative Estimate,’ Research Says // CNN. 2019. 16 января. URL: https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/16/health/climate-change-health-emergency-study/index.html; The Impact of Global Warming on Human Fatality Rates // Scientific American. 2009. 7 июня. URL: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/global-warming-and-health/.

Climate Concerns Increase: Most Republicans Now Acknowledge Change // Monmouth. 2018. 29 ноября. URL: https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/monmouthpoll_us_112918/. Ряд других недавних опросов подтвердил эти результаты: Schwartz J. Global Warming Concerns Rise Among Americans in New Poll // The New York Times. 2019. 22 января. URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/22/climate/americans-global-warming-poll.html; Meyer R. Voters Really Care about Climate Change // The Atlantic. 2020. 21 февраля. URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/02/poll-us-voters-really-do-care-about-climate-change/606907/; Dennis B. и др. Americans Increasingly See Climate Change as a Crisis, Poll Shows // The Washington Post. 2019. 13 сентября. URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/americans-increasingly-see-climate-change-as-a-crisis-poll-shows/2019/09/12/74234db0-cd2a-11e9-87fa-8501a456c003_story.html; Scientific Consensus: Earth’s Climate Is Warming // NASA. URL: https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/.

См. главу 7 в: Mooney C. The Republican War on Science. New York: Basic Books, 2005.

Два лучших примера: Hansen J. Storms of My Grandchildren. New York: Bloomsbury, 2009 и Hoggan J. Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming. Vancouver: Greystone, 2009.

Mooney C. The Republican War on Science. New York: Basic Books, 2005. С. 81.