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September 15, 2021

The shifting sands of COVID and our uncertain future has a name – liminality

Sarah Wayland, University of New England

Understanding liminality and its origins can provide ways to better understand the foggy, ambiguous space we’re experiencing right now.

Certainty about humanity’s influence on climate change has been steadily increasing. carnagenyc/Flickr

August 23, 2013

Lost in translation: confidence and certainty in climate science

Sophie Lewis, The University of Melbourne and Ailie Gallant, Monash University

In the lead up to the release next month of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC’s) Fifth Assessment Report we are exploring concepts of confidence and certainty in climate science. You…

We are used to thinking in probabilities: will it be stormy enough to need an umbrella? Luis Martins

August 22, 2013

In science, the only certainty is uncertainty

Sophie Lewis, The University of Melbourne and Ailie Gallant, Monash University

In the lead up to the release next month of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC’s) Fifth Assessment Report we are exploring concepts of confidence and certainty in climate science. You…

Sometimes a piece of the puzzle won’t fit, but overall the picture is coming together. Dave Ginsberg

August 21, 2013

150 years and counting: confidence in climate science

Ailie Gallant, Monash University and Sophie Lewis, The University of Melbourne

In the lead up to the release next month of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC’s) Fifth Assessment Report we are exploring concepts of confidence and certainty in climate science. The…

Maybe humans aren’t causing climate change, and maybe penguins choose not to fly. Antarctica Bound/Flickr

August 20, 2013

Penguins can’t fly and humans are causing climate change: how scientists build theories

Ailie Gallant, Monash University and Sophie Lewis, The University of Melbourne

In the lead up to the release next month of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC’s) Fifth Assessment Report we are exploring concepts of confidence and certainty in climate science – beginning…

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