Predicting Our Climate Future: What We Know, What We Don't Know, And What We Can't Know

Stainforth, David

ISBN 10: 0198812930 / ISBN 13: 9780198812937

Published by Oxford University Press, 2024

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Predicting Our Climate Future: What We Know, What We Don't Know, And What We Can't Know
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198812930
• ISBN 13: 9780198812937
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book argues that today's climate change science undersells what we know with huge confidence and oversells what we know with little confidence, thereby misleading both the public and policy makers during important international debates and negotiations. Crucial reading for environmentalists and oil tycoons alike.

About the Author

David Stainforth, Professorial Research Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science

After studying Physics at Oxford, David Stainforth worked on ocean modelling and then studied for a Masters on Environmental Management before working as a renewable energy consultant. He returned to academia to pursue research on computer models of the atmosphere before joining Professor Myles Allen to develop the climateprediction.net project, a public-resource, distributed-computing project which engaged hundreds of thousands of people worldwide with climate modelling. He went on to an Associate Professor position at Exeter University and then to LSE, pursuing research on the philosophy of climate science, climate economics, climate modelling and climate decision making under deep uncertainty.