Sentences with phrase «understood area of climate science»

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Climate science is an area that exemplifies the importance of ensuring that policy makers — particularly Governments and their advisers, Non-Governmental Organisations and other lobbyists — understand the limits on what scientists can say and with what degree of confidence.

The run - up in climate science funding is rather modest compared to other areas of science funding, and a more reasonable interpretation of the funding picture isn't that climate scientists are trying to act alarmed in order to run up their funding, but rather that they (we) are trying to run up funding because they actually are alarmed and feel that the subject needs to be understood better.

Given your interest in the state of climate science, we would welcome the opportunity to meet with you to better understand your perspective and rationale for the proposed activity; and to discuss climate science, including which areas are at the frontiers of scientific knowledge and which are well - established because of thousands of studies from multiple lines of evidence.

While there are still many unsolved science problems in the climate area, it may not be worthwhile to publish another set of NIPCC volumes unless major advances in our understanding of climate science appear in the published literature.

among the public, Might it be useful to look at how science is conceived in other politically or philosophically sensitive areas to help understand the public response to the threat of man made climate change.

Instead, the goals should be to promote relevant areas of knowledge beyond just technical understanding of climate science that include understanding of the social, institutional, ethical, and economic dimensions of the debate along with familiarity with the costs and benefits of a range of policy proposals.

From my experience watching the climate science issue advance over the years, what I continually see is people, like yourself who have clear expertise in a specific area, believing that they understand the entire breadth of the climate change issue when, in actuality, they understand very little of the other broader elements of the global climate system that come into play.

Experiences in other areas of science and even climate science show the value of having multiple independent teams of analysts look at the same piece of data to enhance our understanding.