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Predicting Our Climate Future: What We Know, What We Don't Know, and What We Can't Know

Name: Predicting Our Climate Future: What We Know, What We Don't Know, and What We Can't Know
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780198812937
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Contributors:

David Stainforth

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

Science, Nature, Mathematics

Book Subcategory:

Earth Sciences, Ecology, Applied

Book Topic:

Meteorology & Climatology

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Release Date:

2024-01-12

ISBN 13:

9780198812937

Weight:

1.78 lbs

Size:

9.48 x 6.54 x 0.73 inches

Pages:

368

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This book is about how climate science works and why you should absolutely trust some of its conclusions and absolutely distrust others.

Climate change raises new, foundational challenges in science. It requires us to question what we know and how we know it. The subject is important for society but the science is young and history tells us that scientists can get things wrong before they get them right. How, then, can we judge what information is reliable and what is open to question?

Stainforth goes to the heart of the climate change problem to answer this question. He describes the fundamental characteristics of climate change and shows how they undermine the application of traditional research methods, demanding new approaches to both scientific and societal questions. He argues for a rethinking of how we go about the study of climate change in the physical sciences, the social sciences, economics, and policy. The subject requires nothing less than a restructuring of academic research to enable integration of expertise across diverse disciplines and perspectives.

An effective global response to climate change relies on us agreeing about the underlying, foundational, scientific knowledge. Our universities and research institutes fail to provide the necessary clarity - they fail to separate the robust from the questionable - because they do not acknowledge the peculiar and unique challenges of climate prediction. Furthermore, the widespread availability of computer simulations often leads to research becoming divorced from understanding, something that risks undermining the relevance of research conclusions.

This book takes the reader on a journey through the maths of complexity, the physics of climate, philosophical questions regarding the origins and robustness of knowledge, and the use of natural science in the economics and policy of climate change.

About the Author
David Stainforth, Professorial Research Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science

After studying Physics at Oxford, David Stainforth worked on ocean modelling and then studied for a Masters on Environmental Management before working as a renewable energy consultant. He returned to academia to pursue research on computer models of the atmosphere before joining Professor Myles Allen to develop the climateprediction.net project, a public-resource, distributed-computing project which engaged hundreds of thousands of people worldwide with climate modelling. He went on to an Associate Professor position at Exeter University and then to LSE, pursuing research on the philosophy of climate science, climate economics, climate modelling and climate decision making under deep uncertainty.

Predicting Our Climate Future: What We Know, What We Don't Know, and What We Can't Know

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