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Journal article
The tragedy of climate change science
Climate and Development, Vol.14(9), pp.829-833
2022
Abstract
The science-society contract is broken. The climate is changing. Science demonstrates why this is occurring, that it is getting worse, the implications for human well-being and social-ecological systems, and substantiates action. Governments agree that the science is settled. The tragedy of climate change science is that at the same time as compelling evidence is gathered, fresh warnings issued, and novel methodologies developed, indicators of adverse global change rise year upon year. Meanwhile, global responses to Covid-19 have shown that even emergent scientific knowledge can bolster radical government action. We explore three options for the climate change science community. We find that two options are untenable and one is unpalatable. Given the urgency and criticality of climate change, we argue the time has come for scientists to agree to a moratorium on climate change research as a means to first expose, then renegotiate, the broken science-society contract.
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- Title
- The tragedy of climate change science
- Authors
- Bruce C Glavovic (Author) - Massey UniversityTimothy F Smith (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Sustainability Research ClusterIain White (Author) - University of Waikato
- Publication details
- Climate and Development, Vol.14(9), pp.829-833
- Publisher
- Earthscan Ltd.
- Date published
- 2022
- DOI
- 10.1080/17565529.2021.2008855
- ISSN
- 1756-5537; 1756-5529
- Copyright note
- © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99603205802621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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