Predicting our climate future: what we know, what we don't know, and what we can't know
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"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? This book goes to the heart of the climate change problem to answer this question ... Ultimately, the book 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"--Book jacket flap.
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Stainforth, D. A. (2023). Predicting our climate future: what we know, what we don't know, and what we can't know. Oxford University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Stainforth, David Alan, 1967-. 2023. Predicting Our Climate Future: What We Know, What We Don't Know, and What We Can't Know. Oxford University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Stainforth, David Alan, 1967-, Predicting Our Climate Future: What We Know, What We Don't Know, and What We Can't Know. Oxford University Press, 2023.
MLA Citation (style guide)Stainforth, David Alan. Predicting Our Climate Future: What We Know, What We Don't Know, and What We Can't Know. Oxford University Press, 2023.
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| 264 | 1 | |a Oxford ; |a New York : |b Oxford University Press, |c 2023. | |
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| 300 | |a vi, 356 pages : |b illustrations (some color) ; |c 24 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-352) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Table of contents:͠͠Characteristics; Challenges; How to balance justified arrogance with essential humility?; Tying down what we mean by climate and climate change; When is a study with a climate model a study of climate change?; How can we measure what climate is now and how it has changed?; How can we relate what happens in a model to what will happen in reality?; How can we use today's climate science well?; Getting a grip on the scale of future changes in climate; How can we use the information we have, or could have, to design a future that is better than it would otherwise be?; How can we build physical and social science that is up to the task of informing society about what matters for society?͠. | |
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