Getting the Climate Science Facts Right

The Role of the IPCC

Medani P. Bhandari

• Publisher: River Publishers
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9788770221863
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000797206
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Energy

Getting the Climate Science Facts Right - discusses climate change science with reference to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Addressing climate change is the most important public priority of the 21st Century. Unlike many issues, however, this issue is being driven by both science and its interface with politics. The main institution for bridging this division between science and international politics is the IPCC. As such it is the main source of the facts from which climate change policy is developed. This book describes the ways in which the IPCC arrives at these facts and so can be sure they are complete and evidence based.Seldom in history has science had such a direct relationship with politics. The negotiation of an international policy regime requires, at its outset, an agreement on the facts. In this case, the facts are scientific, complex and contentious. Governments have recognized this and have, by using the IPCC, set up institutional machinery to provide facts from a source and in a manner that they can accept.The way in which the IPCC functions is unique in that it melds the way in which science achieves consensus with the way governments do at the international level. Starting with a process to examine, review and debate scientific findings leading to a consensus about scientific fact, usually expressed as probabilities that the findings will hold over time, the IPCC then concludes by using the kind of consensus-development mechanism that the United Nations typically uses to achieve agreements leading to the formation of policy regimes.The book examines the structure of the IPCC, its composition and its procedures in order to achieve an understanding of its role and future.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Endorsements
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Abbreviations
• 1 Introduction – Getting the Facts Right: The IPCC and the Role of Science in Managing Climate Change-Literature and Chapter Outline
• 2 Climate Change and Science
• 3 Role of International Organization in Addressing the Climate Change Issues and Creation of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
• 4 Getting the Facts Right – IPCC – Formalization and its Report Procedures
• 5 Developing Country Scientists and the IPCC
• 6 Climate Change Deniers and the IPCC
• 7 The Composition of the IPCC
• 8 Science and Regime Creation
• 9 The Future of the IPCC
• 10 Case Study: Bashudaiva Kutumbakka – The Entire World is Our Home and all Living Beings are Our Relatives; Why We Need to Worry About Climate Change? With Reference to Pollution Problems in the Major Cities of India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan
• Index
• About the Author