Climate Change Assessments: Confidence, Probability, and Decision.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has developed a novel framework for assessing and communicating uncertainty in the findings published in its periodic assessment reports. But how should these uncertainty assessments inform decisions? We take a formal decision-making perspective to inves...

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Publicado en:Philosophy of Science Vol. 84; no. 3; pp. 500 - 523
Autores principales: Bradley, Richard, Helgeson, Casey, Hill, Brian
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Cambridge University Press Jul2017
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Sumario:The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has developed a novel framework for assessing and communicating uncertainty in the findings published in its periodic assessment reports. But how should these uncertainty assessments inform decisions? We take a formal decision-making perspective to investigate how scientific input formulated in the IPCC's novel framework might inform decisions in a principled way through a normative decision model.