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Scientific evidence of climate change is provided by the publications resulting from numerous studies and investigations by climate researchers. The urgency of the need to act implies that the worldwide efforts to improve understanding of the phenomena with ever better physical models and to predict future changes with increasing certainty must be supported.
Despite this, there is constant resistance to the so-called "climate hysteria" and against allegedly "dogmatic mainstream research" [7]. The arguments employed are largely of an emotional type or are based on a superficial understanding of past and present climate changes, for example the pseudo-scientific assertion: "The warming currently taking place can be understood as a recovery from the last minor ice age", which has been refuted several times by scientific findings.
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Crastan, V. (2010). Introductory remarks. In: Global Energy Economics and Climate Protection Report 2009. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11873-9_1
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