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SUBMITTER: Calel R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7539010 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Calel Raphael R Chapman Sandra C SC Stainforth David A DA Watkins Nicholas W NW
Nature communications 20201006 1
A number of influential assessments of the economic cost of climate change rely on just a small number of coupled climate-economy models. A central feature of these assessments is their accounting of the economic cost of epistemic uncertainty-that part of our uncertainty stemming from our inability to precisely estimate key model parameters, such as the Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity. However, these models fail to account for the cost of aleatory uncertainty-the irreducible uncertainty that rem ...[more]