Tools and strategies for climate change decision making

Frames in climate change communication and decision-making: A catalogue of information tools

The present paper describes a frame-based approach to situateddecision-making on climate change. Based on the multidisciplinary literature on the relationship between frames and decision-making, it argues that members of a decision unit may gain from making frames more explicit. Frames are the organizing principles of perception that shape in a “hidden” and taken-for-granted way how people deve...

Validity of Climate Change Forecasting for Public Policy Decision Making

Policymakers need to know whether prediction is possible and if so whether any proposed forecasting method will provide forecasts that are substantively more accurate than those from the relevant benchmark method. Inspection of global temperature data suggests that it is subject to irregular variations on all relevant time scales and that variations during the late 1900s were not unusual. In su...

Decision making under uncertainty and learning about climate change

Tools for Artificial Decision Making*

Today there are numerous tools for decision analysis that run on ordinary PCs, designed primarily for use by human decision-makers. However, not only humans make decisions. Intelligent agents are also faced with decision problems. In this paper we investigate if any of the computerized tools for decision analysis are useful for artificial decision-makers. Special attention is given to real-time...

Dangerous news: media decision making about climate change risk.

This article explores the role of broadcast news media decision makers in shaping public understanding and debate of climate change risks. It locates the media within a "tangled web" of communication and debate between sources, media, and publics. The article draws on new qualitative research in the British context. The main body of it focuses on media source strategies, on climate change story...