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Naomi Oreskes: On Scientific Knowledge
History shows us clearly that science does not provide certainty. It does not provide truth. What it provides us with is the consensus of experts.
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Anthony Giddens: Climate Change Politics
We've got to find a way back to the politics of the long term. Planning was not effective in Soviet-style situations and went out of vogue. But you can't have a 20-30 year perspective on politics without planning in some sense.
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Clumsy Responses to Wicked Climate Problems
The term ‘clumsy institution’ was coined as a way of escaping from the idea that, when faced with contradictory definitions of problem and solution, we must choose one and reject the rest.
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Climate, Worldviews and Cultural Theory
This typology plots acceptance of social controls against levels of social commitment to derive four worldviews.
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Climate, Information, Perception and Behavior
Connie Roser-Renouf and Matthew Nisbet survey and evaluate a wide range of studies on climate-change related values, opinions, perceptions, preferences, knowledge and behavior.
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Innovation AND Insulation
Steve Easterbrook: Three different emissions pathways to give 67% chance of limiting global warming to 2ºC.
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What do philosophers bring to the climate discussion?
Dale Jamieson: The science of climate change is very different from what we were taught science is supposed to be.
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William Boyd: Forest Carbon and Climate Change
It has become increasingly clear that REDD could be a crucial component of any overall political deal on a post-2012 agreement by breaking the Kyoto logjam and providing an avenue for developing countries to move toward meaningful emissions reductions commitments.
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Andrew Light: Pragmatism and Climate Change
I wanted to create a form of pragmatism that allowed environmental ethicists to make a contribution.
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Meme Brief: Environmental Philosophy
I put together a one-page handout on key ideas and terminology in environmental philosophy.
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Climate Change and Post-Normal Science
In what we call ‘post-normal science’, facts are uncertain, values in dispute, stakes high and decisions urgent. In such a case, the term ‘problem’, with its connotations of an exercise where a defined methodology is likely to lead to a clear solution, is less appropriate.
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The Greenpeace Kingsnorth Six - A Lawful Excuse?
When twelve normal people say that it is legitimate for a direct action group to shut down a coal-fired power station, then one has to ask where exactly that leaves government energy policy.
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Anthony Leiserowitz: Climate and Risk Perception
Americans seem concerned about global warming, yet view it as less important than nearly all other national or environmental issues. What explains this paradox?
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Copenhagen Climate Congress Synthesis Report
In March 2009, the largest academic conference ever devoted to climate change put forth a set of political "messages."
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Carbon Benefits of Natural Landscapes
Conservation biologist Thomas Lovejoy and US Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Hayes discuss the strategy of managing forests, soils, grasslands and wetlands to store increasing amounts of carbon.
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Global Warming’s Six Americas
These six audience segments describe a spectrum of concern and action about global warming, ranging from the Alarmed (18% of the population), to the Concerned (33%), Cautious (19%), Disengaged (12%), Doubtful (11%) and Dismissive (7%).
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Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change
Climate justice needs to go beyond the confines and concerns of traditional environmental justice advocates.
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CO2 Responsibilities and Health Burdens
Global maps of cumulative CO2 emissions versus estimated health effects.
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Facing Climate Change
The Facing Climate Change project tells local stories of a global problem.
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Mike Hulme: Why We Disagree about Climate Change
Our engagement with climate change and the disagreements that it spawns should always be a form of enlightenment.
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