Philosophy of climate science part I: observing climate change

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Philosophy Compass 10 (12):953-964 (2015)
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This is the first of three parts of an introduction to the philosophy of climate science. In this first part about observing climate change, the topics of definitions of climate and climate change, data sets and data models, detection of climate change, and attribution of climate change will be discussed.

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Charlotte Sophie Werndl
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