Messaging climate change uncertainty

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Date

Dec. 17, 2014

Authors

Roger Cooke

Publication

Journal Article

Reading time

1 minute

Climate change is full of uncertainty and the messengers of climate science are not getting the uncertainty narrative right. To communicate uncertainty one must first understand it, and then avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.

Authors

Roger Cooke

Senior Fellow Emeritus

Roger Cooke is a senior fellow emeritus at RFF. He joined RFF in September 2005 as the first appointee to the Chauncey Starr Chair in Risk Analysis.

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