Book contents
- Philosophy and Climate Science
- Philosophy and Climate Science
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Boxes
- Tables
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Data
- 3 Models
- 4 Simulations
- 5 Chaos
- 6 Probability
- 7 Confidence
- 8 Decision
- 9 Values
- 10 Skill
- 11 Robustness
- 12 Diversity
- 13 Social Epistemology
- 14 Epilogue
- Appendix: Structural Stability and the “Hawkmoth Effect”*
- References
- Index
- References
12 - Diversity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 April 2018
Book contents
- Philosophy and Climate Science
- Philosophy and Climate Science
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Boxes
- Tables
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Data
- 3 Models
- 4 Simulations
- 5 Chaos
- 6 Probability
- 7 Confidence
- 8 Decision
- 9 Values
- 10 Skill
- 11 Robustness
- 12 Diversity
- 13 Social Epistemology
- 14 Epilogue
- Appendix: Structural Stability and the “Hawkmoth Effect”*
- References
- Index
- References
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- Philosophy and Climate Science , pp. 188 - 207Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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Suggestions for Further Reading
Schupbach, Jonah N. and Sprenger, Jan. 2011. “The Logic of Explanatory Power,” Philosophy of Science. A very useful companion paper to the above, in which the relevant notion of explanatory power is articulated.Google Scholar
Knutti, Reto and Hegerl, Gabriele C.. 2008. “The Equilibrium Sensitivity of the Earth’s Temperature to Radiation Changes,” Nature Geoscience. An elegant summary of the various independent lines of evidence for our best estimate of the planet’s equilibrium climate sensitivity.Google Scholar
Knutti, Reto. 2018. “Climate Model Confirmation: From Philosophy to Predicting Climate in the Real World.” A paper on climate methodology and epistemology written for a philosophical audience by an IPCC lead author. Argues that process understanding is the key to making judgments about when models have various kinds of skill.Google Scholar