Sentences with phrase «communicating climate change uncertainty»

Application of scientific rather than risk - based norms in communicating climate change uncertainty has also made it easier for policy - makers and other actors to downplay relevant future climate risks (Stern et al 2016, Ebi et al 2016).

Download the report here, and check out our 12 principles for more effectively communicating climate change uncertainty here.

Not exact matches

With the combination of (a) complexities = uncertainties and (b) time lags and lengths of effects over decades and centuries, climate - change grasp and responsible response are really tough to communicate.

The terminology that the IPCC uses — such as «virtually certain», «very likely», «likely» etcetera and the very careful definitions that are attached to them, are an excellent way of communicating the uncertainties around various aspects of climate change, and are a significant improvement over the traditional way of discussing uncertainties in the scientific literature.

It is extremely important to communicate knowledge uncertainty with respect to climate change.

All are experts in their fields and have expertise relating to the role of uncertainty in climate change or how best to communicate it.

Consequently, in many cases, alternative means of communicating uncertainty about future changes in climate should be employed instead.

Adapting core principles of risk assessment to climate: To date, the approach of climate change assessments has primarily been rooted in communicating relative scientific certainty and uncertainty around anticipated changes in the physical climate system, along with some basic biophysical impacts that would seem to be generally implied by those climate changes: based, for example, on general understanding of associations such as those between impacts and weather extremes.

The reasons for that are many: the timid language of scientific probabilities, which the climatologist James Hansen once called «scientific reticence» in a paper chastising scientists for editing their own observations so conscientiously that they failed to communicate how dire the threat really was; the fact that the country is dominated by a group of technocrats who believe any problem can be solved and an opposing culture that doesn't even see warming as a problem worth addressing; the way that climate denialism has made scientists even more cautious in offering speculative warnings; the simple speed of change and, also, its slowness, such that we are only seeing effects now of warming from decades past; our uncertainty about uncertainty, which the climate writer Naomi Oreskes in particular has suggested stops us from preparing as though anything worse than a median outcome were even possible; the way we assume climate change will hit hardest elsewhere, not everywhere; the smallness (two degrees) and largeness (1.8 trillion tons) and abstractness (400 parts per million) of the numbers; the discomfort of considering a problem that is very difficult, if not impossible, to solve; the altogether incomprehensible scale of that problem, which amounts to the prospect of our own annihilation; simple fear.

«although most climate scientists think that uncertainties about climate change should be made clearer in public they do not actively communicate this to journalists»

A representative survey of 123 German climate scientists (42 %) finds that although most climate scientists think that uncertainties about climate change should be made clearer in public they do not actively communicate this to journalists.