Five dimensions of climate change reductionism

Jonathan Rigg; Lisa Reyes Mason

doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0352-1

Five dimensions of climate change reductionism

Jonathan Rigg, Lisa Reyes Mason

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1027-1032
Number of pages	5
Journal	Nature Climate Change
Volume	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0352-1
Publication status	Published - Dec 2018

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