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Five dimensions of climate science reductionism

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The tendency of modern science to reduce complex phenomena into their component parts has many advantages for advancing knowledge. However, such reductionism in climate science is also a problem because it narrows the evidence base, limiting visions of possible futures and the ways they might be achieved.

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  1. Department of Geography and Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Jonathan Rigg

  2. College of Social Work, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA

    Lisa Reyes Mason

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Rigg, J., Mason, L.R. Five dimensions of climate science reductionism. Nature Clim Change 8, 1030–1032 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0352-1

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