LEADER 04722nam 22006615 450 001 9910299413703321 005 20200705183813.0 010 $a3-319-65669-4 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-65669-4 035 $a(CKB)4100000000587053 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-65669-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5049899 035 $a(PPN)204535220 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000000587053 100 $a20170918d2018 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aProblems, Philosophy and Politics of Climate Science /$fby Guido Visconti 205 $a1st ed. 2018. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (XIV, 159 p. 21 illus.) 225 1 $aSpringer Climate,$x2352-0698 311 $a3-319-65668-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 1. A summary of the problem -- Chapter 2. How Climate is studied -- Chapter 3. Modelling the Environment -- Chapter 4 -- What It Is the Climate Science -- Chapter 5. Experimental data and climate -- Chapter 6 -- The Bayes Statistics and the Climate -- Chapter 7. Statistics and Climate -- Chapter 8. Recent developments --  Chapter 9. Some Conclusion. 330 $aThis book is a critical appraisal of the status of the so-called Climate Sciences (CS). These are contributed by many other basic sciences like physics, geology, chemistry and as such employ theoretical and experimental methods. In the last few decades most of the CS have been identified with the global warming problem and numerical models have been used as the main tool for their investigations. The produced predictions can only be partially tested against experimental data and may represent one of the reasons CS are drifting away from the route of the scientific method. On the other hand the study of climate faces many other interesting and mostly unsolved problems (think about ice ages) whose solution could clarify how the climatic system works. As for the global warming, while its existence is largely proved, scientifically it can be solved only with a large experimental effort carried out for a few decades. Problems can arise when not proved hypotheses are adopted as the basis for public policy without the recognition that they may be on shaky ground. The strong interactions of the Global Warming (GW) with the society create another huge problem of political nature for the CS.   The book argues that the knowledge gained so far on the specific GW problem is enough for the relevant political decisions to be taken and that Climate Science should resume the study of the climate system with appropriate means and methods. The book introduces the most relevant concepts needed for the discussion in the text or in appropriate appendices and it is directed to the general public with upper undergraduate background. Each chapter closes with a debate between a climate scientist and a humanist to reflect the discussions between climate science and philosophy or climate scientists and society. 410 0$aSpringer Climate,$x2352-0698 606 $aClimate change 606 $aAtmospheric sciences 606 $aPhilosophy and science 606 $aEnvironment 606 $aPolitical science 606 $aClimate Change$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/U12007 606 $aClimate Change Management and Policy$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/314000 606 $aAtmospheric Sciences$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/G36000 606 $aPhilosophy of Science$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E34000 606 $aEnvironment Studies$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X36000 606 $aPolitical Science$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911000 615 0$aClimate change. 615 0$aAtmospheric sciences. 615 0$aPhilosophy and science. 615 0$aEnvironment. 615 0$aPolitical science. 615 14$aClimate Change. 615 24$aClimate Change Management and Policy. 615 24$aAtmospheric Sciences. 615 24$aPhilosophy of Science. 615 24$aEnvironment Studies. 615 24$aPolitical Science. 676 $a577.27 700 $aVisconti$b Guido$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$022576 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910299413703321 996 $aProblems, Philosophy and Politics of Climate Science$92503411 997 $aUNINA