Global Change : Interviews with Leading Climate Scientists /
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2012. |
| Colección: | SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences,
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- Understanding does not imply predictive power
- We always make models for something, not of something
- Time means are more predictable than the instantaneous state
- The large scale dynamics are reasonably well understood, un-certainty lies in the parametrization of small-scale processes
- It is the poor and the marginalized that are hit hardest by climate change
- When deciding about long-term strategies, irreversibility is a key point
- The Montreal Agreement is a good example of how to deal with a global environmental problem.