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Usability of climate information: Toward a new scientific framework
WIREs Climate Change ( IF 9.2 ) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 , DOI: 10.1002/wcc.833
Julie Jebeile 1, 2 , Joe Roussos 3
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Climate science is expected to provide usable information to policy-makers, to support the resolution of climate change. The complex, multiply connected nature of climate change as a social problem is reviewed and contrasted with current modular and discipline-bounded approaches in climate science. We argue that climate science retains much of its initial “physics-first” orientation, and that it adheres to a problematic notion of objectivity as freedom from value judgments. Together, these undermine its ability to provide usable information. We develop the notion of usability using work from the literature on adaptation, but our argument applies to all of climate science. We illustrate the tension between usability and the objective, physics-first orientation of climate science with an example about model development practices in climate science. For solutions, we draw on two frameworks for science which responds to societal challenges: post-normal science and mandated science. We generate five recommendations for adapting the practice of climate science, to produce more usable information and thereby respond more directly to the social challenge of climate change. These are: (1) integrated cross-disciplinarity, (2) wider involvement of stakeholders throughout the lifecycle of a climate study, (3) a new framing of the role of values in climate science, (4) new approaches to uncertainty management, and (5) new approaches to uncertainty communication.

中文翻译:

气候信息的可用性:迈向新的科学框架

气候科学有望为政策制定者提供可用信息,以支持解决气候变化问题。本文回顾了气候变化作为一个社会问题的复杂性、多重关联性,并将其与当前气候科学中的模块化和学科界限方法进行了对比。我们认为,气候科学保留了其最初的“物理学第一”的大部分取向,并且坚持了一个有问题的客观性概念,即不受价值判断的影响。这些因素共同削弱了其提供可用信息的能力。我们利用适应文献中的工作提出了可用性的概念,但我们的论点适用于所有气候科学。我们通过一个关于气候科学模型开发实践的例子来说明气候科学的可用性和客观的、物理第一的方向之间的紧张关系。为了找到解决方案,我们借鉴了两个应对社会挑战的科学框架:后常态科学和强制科学。我们提出了五项建议,以适应气候科学的实践,产生更多可用的信息,从而更直接地应对气候变化的社会挑战。它们是:(1) 综合跨学科性,(2) 利益相关者更广泛地参与气候研究的整个生命周期,(3) 气候科学中价值观作用的新框架,(4) 不确定性管理的新方法, (5) 不确定性沟通的新方法。产生更多可用信息,从而更直接地应对气候变化的社会挑战。它们是:(1) 综合跨学科性,(2) 利益相关者更广泛地参与气候研究的整个生命周期,(3) 气候科学中价值观作用的新框架,(4) 不确定性管理的新方法, (5) 不确定性沟通的新方法。产生更多可用信息,从而更直接地应对气候变化的社会挑战。它们是:(1) 综合跨学科性,(2) 利益相关者更广泛地参与气候研究的整个生命周期,(3) 气候科学中价值观作用的新框架,(4) 不确定性管理的新方法, (5) 不确定性沟通的新方法。
更新日期:2023-03-09
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