Climate Change Challenges and Problems Introductory statement Hans von Storch - manuscript available - Prague, 7 October 2014.

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Climate Change Challenges and Problems Introductory statement Hans von Storch - manuscript available - Prague, 7 October 2014

climate change, Climate Change Climate change is a problem related to geophysical dynamics, namely that a change of the chemical composition of the atmosphere causes a change of the weather statistics, which represents a major political challenge, namely the need to decide of how we deal with the perspective of man- made climate change. Climate Change with capital C’s, has become the major battle-cry in a conflict about how “we” should live, oriented along the paradigms of “sustainability” or of “freedom of individual”. In one extremes, social actors claim the impending catastrophe, which will make the world inhabitable as we know it, if we do not implement a stringent top-down transformation of the society, whereas the other extreme considers the science fundamentally flawed, that nothing of significance will happen, and that all efforts for purportedly “saving climate” are merely done for achieving a socialist-like world-government. Maybe, this aspect of climate change is the most challenging, because it has two side effects, namely that the issue of climate change itself fades into the background, is no longer taken seriously as such, and the political decision process is framed as if all decisions would immediately follow from scientific facts.

What can “we” do? We = scientists Do not claim that we know what “must” be done politically. Recognize that our knowledge is deep and narrow, even if we operate in an interdisciplinary set-up. Participate in the public debate as citizen, without claiming a privileged role derived from superior knowledge of “truth”.

Natural scientific challenges “The science” is not settled, but that certain issues are no longer contested, such as that elevated greenhouse gas concentrations go along with changes in the thermal regime. Construction of scenariosis a routine task. Which issues have not been addressed properly, and which are contested. Among these are the failure of contemporary scenarios to describe the “hiatus” of an extended period of little warming, the contributions to change of sea level, the change of tropical cyclones, the role of aerosols. How wll the sensitivity of the climate system change when the modelled oceans are no longer made up by mustard but with water; and how accurate is the complex of radiation and clouds described in our models? A key approach in climate change science is “detection and attribution”, which is designed to first determine if an ongoing change is beyond the range of natural variations, and second identify the mix of drivers which this change may most plausibly be attributed to. This concept is rarely seen in regional studies. One reason is that other drivers are present in regional set-ups, in particular regional aerosol presence and land-use change (including urbanization). Europe has seen both a massive increase in global greenhouse gas concentrations, and a strong built-up and later reduction of regional aerosols.

Social science challenges The concepts of mitigation and adaptation, with the more recent and rather belated insight that the dominant managerial issue on regional and local scales is adaptation. The role of the catastrophe rhetoric, and the function of the 2 o goal in gaining and loosing public attention. The logic of skeptics and alarmists that science is decisive in defining policies; that policymaking is merely implementing scientific insight.

Short summary Send scientists back from the public market squares into their laboratories and let them construct knowledge and options of how to deal with problems. Have them participating in the public decision process by presenting this knowledge and options, but otherwise as everybody else Frame climate change as a political problem. Deal with climate change, not with Climate Change.