
Getting the Climate Science Facts Right
The Role of the IPCC
Medani P. Bhandari(Author)
River Publishers
1st Edition
Published on 21. October 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-87-7004-338-0 (ISBN)
Description
Getting the Climate Science Facts Right - discusses climate change science with reference to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Addressing climate change is the most important public priority of the 21st Century. Unlike many issues, however, this issue is being driven by both science and its interface with politics. The main institution for bridging this division between science and international politics is the IPCC. As such it is the main source of the facts from which climate change policy is developed. This book describes the ways in which the IPCC arrives at these facts and so can be sure they are complete and evidence based.Seldom in history has science had such a direct relationship with politics. The negotiation of an international policy regime requires, at its outset, an agreement on the facts. In this case, the facts are scientific, complex and contentious. Governments have recognized this and have, by using the IPCC, set up institutional machinery to provide facts from a source and in a manner that they can accept.The way in which the IPCC functions is unique in that it melds the way in which science achieves consensus with the way governments do at the international level. Starting with a process to examine, review and debate scientific findings leading to a consensus about scientific fact, usually expressed as probabilities that the findings will hold over time, the IPCC then concludes by using the kind of consensus-development mechanism that the United Nations typically uses to achieve agreements leading to the formation of policy regimes.The book examines the structure of the IPCC, its composition and its procedures in order to achieve an understanding of its role and future.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Gistrup
Denmark
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Academic
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
453 gr
ISBN-13
978-87-7004-338-0 (9788770043380)
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Getting the Climate Science Facts Right