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Beyond the Climate Crisis: A Critique of Climate Change Discourse

The Dominant Framing of Climate Change

Since the turn of the twenty-first century, breakthroughs in climate-change science and modeling, coupled with observable and measurable climate effects, have shifted the understanding of anthropogenic climate change into a solid epistemic and experiential terrain. There is no longer even a semblance of a debate about the reality of global warming, its causes, and the climate change it has effected and portends.¹

But even as climate change has exited the realm of hypothesis and entered that of fact, uncertainties about its potential consequences are legion. As political scientist Karen Litfin notes, "uncertainties revolve around...