How to break the gridlock surrounding the climate debate
List of Figure and Tables; Description; Acknowledgments; Author’s Foreword; Part One The Climate Change Challenge, Chapter One Introduction; Chapter Two Consensus, or Not?; Chapter Three The Climate Change Response Challenge; Chapter Four Mixing Science and Politics; Part Two Uncertainty of Twenty-First Century Climate Change, Chapter Five The Climate Change “Uncertainty Monster”; Chapter Six Climate Models; Chapter Seven IPCC Scenarios of Twenty-First Century Cimate Change; Chapter Eight Alternative Methods for Generating Climate Change Scenarios; Chapter Nine What’s the Worst Case?; Part Three Climate Risk and Response, Chapter Ten Risk and Its Assessment; Chapter Eleven Risk Management; Chapter Twelve Decision-Making Under Deep Uncertainty; Chapter Thirteen Adaptation, Resilience, and Development; Chapter Fourteen Mitigation; Chapter Fifteen Climate Risk and the Policy Discourse; Index
Judith Curry is Professor Emerita of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, and President of the Climate Forecast Applications Network.
“Climate Uncertainty and Risk” provides a balanced, fair assessment
of the content and conclusions of the IPCC ARs. It compares and
contrasts some ancient but mostly more recent climate conditions
and events in making the case for a broader inclusion of past
situations to better understand and simulate the climate future.
The book includes a thoughtful look at climate change versus
COVID-19 risk, especially relative to applying the “precautionary
principle.” “Climate Uncertainty and Risk” is an essential
contribution to understanding and mitigating climate change. Ms.
Curry’s goal is to better inform the reader “as to the
uncertainties and the various values in play” surrounding the
judgments as to “whether warming is dangerous or whether urgent
action to reduce CO2 emissions is needed.”—Anthony J. Sadar, The
Washington Times
“Climate Uncertainty” is a serious, nonpolitical book, which
will help to elevate the level of scientific and political
discourse. It should be read by everyone who writes or speaks about
climate change, including the political and media
class— Richard Rahn, The Washington Times
The real import of Curry’s book is her analysis of the forms of
science and economics that are rallied to support extreme policy
actions —Terence Corcoran, Financial Post
A new book by a leading climate change scientist gives reason for
hope that the light of truth is shedding a few rays into the dark,
dystopian, ideologically driven pseudoscience known as global
warming— American Thinker
Climate Uncertainty and Risk is more than a book. Curry has
produced a single-author counter to the IPCC that offers a radical
alternative to the UN paradigm of climate change that could well
serve as a manual for a future Republican administration.—Real
Clear Energy
It covers a remarkably broad array of interrelated topics, from the
science to energy technology to policies that are sensitive to the
needs of underdeveloped nations, with an attitude that’s more
pragmatic than ideological. — Energy Law Journal
Key to Curry’s approach is a dynamic adaptive decision-making
approach than one based on static plans that are nearly impossible
to implement. Curry provides a careful history and understanding of
risk analysis with attendant cautionary and precautionary
principles and how these are weighted to problems with different
degrees of confidence of what is actually and what is poorly known,
and perhaps even guesses. —Minding the Campus
The courage to admit prevailing predictions of the Earth’s future
climate are far from certainties makes Judith Curry a rare model
scientist" — Stephen Wilson, IPA Review
“Judith A. Curry is one of the world’s leading scholars of climate
change and a deep thinker about how science copes with uncertainty.
In this refreshing and comprehensive book, she shows with
meticulous care and great clarity that exaggerated claims about
climate change made for political purposes are wide of the mark.
Instead, she shows the way to a rational and practical discussion
of this polarized topic.”—Matt Ridley, author of The Rational
Optimist and How Innovation Works.
“With climate models running too hot by a factor of 2 for 30 years,
with everything that used to be called a weather event now a
portent of climate change, and with billions being invested against
this as opposed to other more pressing world needs, Judith A. Curry
provides us with a much-needed and convincing rethink.”—Michael
Kelly, Emeritus Prince Philip Professor of Technology, University
of Cambridge, UK.
“Judith A. Curry leverages her background in climate science,
weather forecasting, and devising risk management strategies to
present the climate policy debate we have never had. Her balanced,
evidence-based, and multifaceted discussion leaves the reader
‘better informed as to the uncertainties and the various
values in play’ in designing climate policy.”—Peter Hartley, George
A. Peterkin Professor of Economics, Rice University, USA; MEECON
Co-Director.
Judith Curry’s book Climate Uncertainty and Risk aims to provide a
framework for understanding the climate change ‘debate’. She argues
that the climate change problem and its solution have been
oversimplified; that understanding uncertainty can help in better
assessing the risks; and that uncertainty and disagreement can be
part of the decision-making process. Curry’s book is divided
into three parts. The first describes the climate change challenge.
The second relates to the uncertainty of 21st century climate
change, noting her emphasis on 21st century. The final section
covers climate risk and response - Michael Muntisov & Greg
Finlayson
The book is extremely readable and informative. [...] Climate
Uncertainty and Risk is a book for thinking people with open minds.
It is a model of logical analysis and cool headedness. It brings
the “grand” climate change challenge down to earth, reframing it as
a “wicked problem” that needs to be reckoned with at local to
regional scales in the context of other challenges (e.g., energy
security, food provision, and biodiversity protection).[...] I
would certainly recommend Climate Uncertainty and Risk as a key
text for undergraduate and postgraduate modules focused on climate
science, public understanding, and public policy. — The AAG Review
of Books
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