Problems, Philosophy and Politics of Climate Science

• Main Author: Visconti, Guido (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Springer Climate,
• Subjects: Climate change.; Atmospheric sciences.; Philosophy and science.; Environment.; Political science.; Climate Change.; Climate Change Management and Policy.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Philosophy of Science.; Environment Studies.; Political Science.

This 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 gl...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 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.