ABSTRACT
This chapter examines various ethical issues, which arise in light of arguments made for over 30 years, that governments should not take action to reduce the threat of climate change because it is claimed that there is insufficient scientific proof of human-induced warming. As we saw in Chapter 2, ethical issues with decision making in the face of scientific uncertainty have rarely been discussed, at least in the public debate about climate change, despite the fact there are numerous ethical issues entailed by decision making in the face of scientific uncertainty that are extraordinarily applicable to climate change.
