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Sensitivity of collective action to uncertainty about climate tipping points

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  • Scott Barrett

    (Earth Institute and School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
    Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University)

  • Astrid Dannenberg

    (Earth Institute, Columbia University
    University of Gothenburg)

Abstract

Studies about early warning signals of a climate tipping point suggest that collective action to avoid a catastrophe will only take place if uncertainty about the threshold for dangerous climate change is reduced. An experiment now finds that behaviour changes dramatically either side of a dividing line for this threshold uncertainty—when uncertainty is only slightly larger, catastrophe is not averted.

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  • Scott Barrett & Astrid Dannenberg, 2014. "Sensitivity of collective action to uncertainty about climate tipping points," Nature Climate Change, Nature, vol. 4(1), pages 36-39, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcli:v:4:y:2014:i:1:d:10.1038_nclimate2059
    DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2059
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