Cross-Cultural Insights into Climate Change Skepticism

A Closer Look at Climate Change Skepticism

Climate Change Skepticism in the Face of Catastrophe

Despite overwhelming scientific evidence for man-made climate change, many people and more importantly policymakers still remain skeptical about the subject. While this phenomenon of ”climate-skepticism” prevents implementation of environmental policies around the globe, it is ignored in economic models of climate change. In this paper we fill this gap by creating a model that allows for climat...

New insights into climate carbon

Using water samples taken in June, scientists from Woods Hole also looked for oxygen depletion, which would naturally follow if bacteria in the ocean were metabolizing these hydrocarbons. Finding little, they concluded that the oil must still be there. That’s consistent with studies from other spills that show oil does not degrade quickly in the dark and frigid deep sea. So, as The Guardian not...

Insights into Cross-validation

Cross-validation is one of the most widely used techniques, in estimating the Generalization Error of classification algorithms. Though several empirical studies have been conducted, to study the behavior of this method in the past, none of them clearly elucidate the reasons behind the observed behavior. In this paper we study the behavior of the moments (i.e. expected value and variance) of th...

Palaeoclimatic insights into future climate challenges.

Palaeoclimatic data document a sensitive climate system subject to large and perhaps difficult-to-predict abrupt changes. These data suggest that neither the sensitivity nor the variability of the climate are fully captured in some climate-change projections, such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Summary for Policymakers. Because larger, faster and less-expected climate c...