Five ways to enhance the impact of climate science
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Rose, DC
Abstract
Policy-making is rarely driven by evidence alone. Thus, climate scientists who adopt an ‘evidence-based’ mindset, expecting more science to lead automatically to better policy, are likely to be disappointed. Instead, embracing an ‘evidence-informed’ attitude to policy-making will be more productive, recognising that evidence must be deployed in such a way as to interact persuasively with other factors. Using the 5th Assessment Report of the IPCC as inspiration, this commentary argues that climate scientists would do well to consider five ideas and ultimately embrace an evidence-informed approach to presenting evidence.
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Nature Climate Change
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1758-678X
1758-6798
1758-6798
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4
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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This work is taken from a larger PhD project currently
being undertaken in the Department of Geography at
the University of Cambridge. This work is very kindly
funded by the Economic and Social Research Council
(grant number ES/I901957/1) and by the Homerton
College Charter Scholarship scheme. I would like to thank
S. E. Owens, A. Donovan and W. M. Adams for comments,
and D. Watson for help with the figures.