Climate modelling : philosophical and conceptual issues /

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Imprint:Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11543484
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Other authors / contributors:Lloyd, Elisabeth Anne, editor.
Winsberg, Eric, editor.
ISBN:9783319650586
3319650580
3319650572
9783319650579
9783319650579
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 19, 2018).
Summary:This edited collection of works by leading climate scientists and philosophers introduces readers to issues in the foundations, evaluation, confirmation, and application of climate models. It engages with important topics directly affecting public policy, including the role of doubt, the use of satellite data, and the robustness of models. Climate Modelling provides an early and significant contribution to the burgeoning Philosophy of Climate Science field that will help to shape our understanding of these topics in both philosophy and the wider scientific context. It offers insight into the reasons we should believe what climate models say about the world but addresses the issues that inform how reliable and well-confirmed these models are.
Other form:Print version : 9783319650579