The Difference Between Prediction and Risk Assessment

There is a culture within science of making prediction and some climate scientists themselves have suggested that this not only comes from science in general but particularly in terms of climate science. Risk assessment you say first, what's the worst that could happen for things that we care about and second, how likely is that? And so if I give a couple of examples, one is sea level rise. It's quite hard to explain to a government minister why they should really care about that. The heat stress example I gave back in the IPCC's fifth assessment report nearly 10 years ago now,. There was one paper that talked about that and it was hidden deep, deep down in chapter 12 somewhere where most government people never

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