Location
University of Nevada Las Vegas, Stan Fulton Building
Start Date
2-6-2007 9:30 AM
End Date
2-6-2007 9:40 AM
Description
Probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) methodological limitations as well as environmental application-specific features confound much needed objective analysis and hope for equitable remediation of anthropogenic climate change. Issues addressed include: risk subjectivism, the difficulty of mathematical and computer model prediction-validity assessment associated with chaotic system dynamics, as well as standards of scholarship and the obstacle to societal reform posed by commercial, consumer-driven mass-media journalism.
Keywords
Climate change; Climatic changes; Global warming – Prevention; Global warming – Social aspects; Global warming and society; Probabilistic risk assessment (PRA); Reversing global warming; Risk assessment
Disciplines
Climate | Environmental Policy | Environmental Sciences
Language
English
Permissions
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Session 9 - The Century of living dangerously, part II: Confronting uncertainty
University of Nevada Las Vegas, Stan Fulton Building
Probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) methodological limitations as well as environmental application-specific features confound much needed objective analysis and hope for equitable remediation of anthropogenic climate change. Issues addressed include: risk subjectivism, the difficulty of mathematical and computer model prediction-validity assessment associated with chaotic system dynamics, as well as standards of scholarship and the obstacle to societal reform posed by commercial, consumer-driven mass-media journalism.