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Science 14 September 2007:
Vol. 317. no. 5844, pp. 1505 - 1506
DOI: 10.1126/science.1144831
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Policy Forum

CLIMATE CHANGE:
The Limits of Consensus

Michael Oppenheimer,1,2* Brian C. O'Neill,3,4 Mort Webster,5 Shardul Agrawala1,6

The establishment of consensus by the IPCC is no longer as critical to governments as a full exploration of uncertainty.

1Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.

2Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.

3International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria.

4Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.

5MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

6Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Paris, France.

*Author for correspondence. E-mail: omichael{at}princeton.edu

The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the institutions they are affiliated with.

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