New Tool Puts a Consistent Value on Experts' Uncertainty on Climate Change Models

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Date

April 27, 2016

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Media Highlight

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Princeton University

"Oppenheimer worked with co-author Christopher Little, a climate scientist at Atmospheric and Environmental Research Inc. in Massachusetts, and a former postdoctoral research associate in the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy in Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs; and Roger Cooke, a professor at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland and Resources for the Future in Washington, renowned for his research on structured expert judgment."

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