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When doubt is a sure thing

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  • Jim Giles

    (Nature's associate news and features editor)

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Is it possible to adopt a more rigorous approach to the communication of scientific uncertainty? Jim Giles talks to the climatologists whose pursuit of this goal has seen them dubbed the 'uncertainty cops'.

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  • Jim Giles, 2002. "When doubt is a sure thing," Nature, Nature, vol. 418(6897), pages 476-478, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:418:y:2002:i:6897:d:10.1038_418476a
    DOI: 10.1038/418476a
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    1. Megan Ceronsky & David Anthoff & Cameron Hepburn & Richard S.J. Tol, 2005. "Checking The Price Tag On Catastrophe: The Social Cost Of Carbon Under Non-Linear Climate Response," Working Papers FNU-87, Research unit Sustainability and Global Change, Hamburg University, revised Aug 2005.
    2. Rob Swart & Lenny Bernstein & Minh Ha-Duong & Arthur Petersen, 2009. "Agreeing to disagree: uncertainty management in assessing climate change, impacts and responses by the IPCC," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 92(1), pages 1-29, January.
    3. Jordi Vallverdú, 2008. "The False Dilemma: Bayesian vs. Frequentist," E-LOGOS, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 2008(1).
    4. Richard Moss, 2011. "Reducing doubt about uncertainty: Guidance for IPCC’s third assessment," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 108(4), pages 641-658, October.

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