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The Rightful Place of Science: Climate Pragmatism Paperback – June 2, 2017
by
Jason Lloyd
(Author),
Ted Nordhaus
(Author),
Daniel Sarewitz
(Author),
Alex Trembath
(Author)
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There is a robust and growing demand for a more pragmatic approach to the climate challenge. The Rightful Place of Science: Climate Pragmatism brings together powerful ideas for meeting this demand. The starting point of this new approach is a commitment to human dignity and the potential for innovation to drive economic prosperity and protect the lives and livelihoods of billions of people. Driven by pragmatic and inclusive political strategies, this new framework builds on earlier work to focus on energy access, energy innovation, and climate adaptation.
- Print length158 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJune 2, 2017
- Dimensions5 x 0.36 x 8 inches
- ISBN-10069289795X
- ISBN-13978-0692897959
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By focusing on creativity and innovation in energy abundance and diversity, Climate Pragmatism has successfully brought fresh thinking on how to engage in a more positive discourse on the relations between energy, climate change, human development, and adaptation. --Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development, Harvard Kennedy School
This latest contribution to The Rightful Place of Science series offers a clear-eyed and pragmatic agenda for minimizing the risks of a changing climate while meeting the needs of the many: energy access and protection from climatic hazards. Climate pragmatism is inspired by directly seeking to save lives and enhance human dignity. This is a persuasive and humane narrative that speaks across the ideological spectrum. --Mike Hulme, Professor of Climate & Culture, King's College London
As this book explains, we need large-scale, rapid solutions beyond renewable energy to limit climate risks while at the same time providing at least a modicum of energy for all the world's people. This book is a must-read for people who have been led to believe that solar and wind are all we need to solve climate change. --Jane C. S. Long, former Associate Director for Energy and Environment, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
This latest contribution to The Rightful Place of Science series offers a clear-eyed and pragmatic agenda for minimizing the risks of a changing climate while meeting the needs of the many: energy access and protection from climatic hazards. Climate pragmatism is inspired by directly seeking to save lives and enhance human dignity. This is a persuasive and humane narrative that speaks across the ideological spectrum. --Mike Hulme, Professor of Climate & Culture, King's College London
As this book explains, we need large-scale, rapid solutions beyond renewable energy to limit climate risks while at the same time providing at least a modicum of energy for all the world's people. This book is a must-read for people who have been led to believe that solar and wind are all we need to solve climate change. --Jane C. S. Long, former Associate Director for Energy and Environment, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Product details
- Publisher : Consortium for Science, Policy, & Outcomes (June 2, 2017)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 158 pages
- ISBN-10 : 069289795X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0692897959
- Item Weight : 5.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 5 x 0.36 x 8 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #4,530,484 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #4,648 in Climatology
- #10,909 in Environmental Science (Books)
- #21,006 in Technology (Books)
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Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2017
If one took a deep breath, whatever one's view on the matter of climate, this is what one would conclude. Believers and skeptics should read it, and rethink the passions of their disagreements.
Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2019
This dispassionate book takes the hot air out of the most strident climate change alarmists and ostriches, to overly generalize. The science - and the statistics to make sense of it - are not as clear as either extreme would have us believe, nor is what to do about it. This book is solid. Their other book in the series, "Science on the Verge: The Rightful Place of Science," is also great. I also recommend the scientific paper "Pay No Attention to the Model Behind the Curtain," by my friend and UC Berkeley statistician and science dean Philip Stark, which critiques the stats used by the IPCC as "quantifauxcation." https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~stark/Preprints/eucCurtain15.pdf