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Essay 2. Advice on Climate Policy for the 2020 Presidential CandidatesThe prospects for climate action will be influenced by the credibility of its treatment in political debate. It will be important to be clear about both risks and opportunities, recognize the distribution of cost, and preserve room for needed bipartisan action.

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Essay 10. We Cannot Ignore the Links Between COVID-19 and the Warming PlanetThere is a two-way interaction between COVID risk and climate risk. The response options to climate-driven extreme events exacerbates exposure to infectious disease. Also, the climate-related damage likely increased the animal-to-human transmission of disease.

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Essay 11. Counterfactual Experiments Are Crucial But Easy to MisunderstandWith COVID-19, as with climate, model-based counterfactual experiments are used to explore a variety of possible futures in order to inform policy. “What will likely happen if we did this?” or “What will likely happen if we did not do that?” are the two critical questions that need to be confronted. Criticism of the procedure is misplaced.

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Essay 12. Climate Change and COVID-19: Understanding Existential ThreatsThe word “existential” is applied freely to attract attention to the risks posed by climate change and the coronavirus pandemic. Their usage is problematic in the absence of a specification of intended scope.

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Essay 13. Five Science Questions That Ought to Be Asked at the DebateTV debates in advance of a presidential election offer an opportunity to expose the candidates’ views on climate. Here is an effort to suggest questions that debate moderators might use.