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David Spratt | Is scientific reticence hindering climate understanding? | 02 Apr 2025 at 16:30 EDT | CACOR Live
Speaker: David Spratt
Subject: Is scientific reticence hindering climate understanding?
Time: 16:30 ET Wednesday 2 April 2025 (it is 08:30 on Thursday 3 April in Australia)
Summary:
Physical climate risks are systemic, non-linear and cascading in a manner no incorporated into climate models. Particular attention should be given to the plausible high-end possibilities, and not the mid-range probabilities, because the worst-case scenarios will result in great and potentially existential damage. The bulk of climate research has tended to underplay these risks and exhibited a preference for conservative projections and scholarly reticence. The reticence is clearly displayed in the work of the IPCC. The drivers of this reticence are methodological, political and social.
Biography:
David Spratt is an Australian climate policy analyst and advocate, and Research Director at the Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration. Spratt co-authored Climate Code Red: The Case for Emergency Action, wand What Lies Beneath: The Understatement of Existential Climate Risk. His work explores climate threats and human security, risk methods, and the need for restorative action.
Administration:
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