Saturday, 5 January 2013

The biggest climate uncertainty: politics

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An analysis of major sources of uncertainty in limiting the rise of global temperatures has found that politics, rather than science, society or technology, plays the largest role.


The study, published in Nature, compared the relative importance of political uncertainty regarding when a coordinated global climate policy might be achieved; scientific uncertainty over how much the Earth will warm in response to emissions; social uncertainty about future energy demand; and technological uncertainty regarding the availability of emissions-reduction technologies.


By: Duncan Geere,


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via Wired.co.uk



http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-01/05/climate-politics

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