Beyond equilibrium climate sensitivity

R Knutti, MAA Rugenstein, GC Hegerl - Nature Geoscience, 2017 - nature.com
Equilibrium climate sensitivity characterizes the Earth's long-term global temperature
response to increased atmospheric CO2 concentration. It has reached almost iconic status …

A scientific critique of the two-degree climate change target

R Knutti, J Rogelj, J Sedláček, EM Fischer - Nature Geoscience, 2016 - nature.com
The world's governments agreed to limit global mean temperature change to below 2° C
compared with pre-industrial levels in the years following the 2009 climate conference in …

[HTML][HTML] Anticipating futures through models: the rise of Integrated Assessment Modelling in the climate science-policy interface since 1970

L Van Beek, M Hajer, P Pelzer, D van Vuuren… - Global Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) have gained a prominent role in the climate
science-policy interface. The article reconstructs the evolution of IAMs and their changing …

[LLIBRE][B] How climate change comes to matter: The communal life of facts

C Callison - 2014 - library.oapen.org
During the past decade, skepticism about climate change has frustrated those seeking to
engage broad publics and motivate them to take action on the issue. In this innovative …

[LLIBRE][B] Liberation ecologies: environment, development and social movements

R Peet, M Watts - 2004 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Liberation Ecologies brings together some of the most exciting theorists in the field to
explore the impact of political ecology in today's develo** world. The book casts new light …

How science makes environmental controversies worse

D Sarewitz - Environmental science & policy, 2004 - Elsevier
I use the example of the 2000 US Presidential election to show that political controversies
with technical underpinnings are not resolved by technical means. Then, drawing from …

Climate change prediction: Erring on the side of least drama?

K Brysse, N Oreskes, J O'reilly… - Global environmental …, 2013 - Elsevier
Over the past two decades, skeptics of the reality and significance of anthropogenic climate
change have frequently accused climate scientists of “alarmism”: of over-interpreting or …

The construction of global warming and the politics of science

D Demeritt - Annals of the association of American geographers, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
Having outlined a theory of heterogeneous social construction, this article describes the
scientific construction of climate change as a global-scale environmental problem caused by …

Stabilizing the boundary between US politics and science: The role of the Office of Technology Transfer as a boundary organization

DH Guston - Social studies of science, 1999 - journals.sagepub.com
The sociological study of boundary-work and the political-economic approach of principal-
agent theory can be complementary ways of examining the relationship between society …

Does climate adaptation policy need probabilities?

S Dessai, M Hulme - Climate policy, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
Estimating the likelihood of future climate change has become a priority objective within the
research community. This is the case because of the advancement of science, because of …