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In its Wednesday-released most comprehensive report ever on climate change, the National Academy of Sciences argued vehemently in defense of the science of climate change but also recommended taxes on carbon emissions.
Calling for a long-term national policy for restricting the effects of climate change, the report also underscored the likelihood that global warming might make it necessary to shift the at risk people away from coasts.
In a marked change from its thus-far-cautious approach, the new report by the National Academy of Sciences has suggested that either there should be a cap-and-trade program for reducing greenhouse gas emissions; or some other strong action should be taken to curb global warming and its disastrous effects.
Noting that strict actions are necessary at least in the immediate future, Stanford Universitys Pamela A. Matson
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