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Climate change is now a hot political topic that blurs the boundary between policy relevant and policy prescriptive (as contained for example in the avowed stance of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). The growing political relevance of climate change science necessarily places a premium on timely advice and on risk assessment and management. What is the role of climate scientists in that new situation?
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This essay is in part drawn from the author’s book “Climate Change: The Science, Impacts and Solutions” (CSIRO Publishing and Earthscan, 2009).
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Pittock, B. From academic science to political hot potato: climatic change, risk and policy relevance. Climatic Change 100, 203–209 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-010-9819-4
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-010-9819-4