Seminario
Tales of twin cities: what are climate analogues good for?
Abstract dell'evento
This talk, based on joint work with Hernan Bobadilla, Rawad El Skaf and Francesco Nappo, provides an epistemological assessment of climate analogue methods, with specific reference to the use of spatial analogues in the study of the future climate of target locations. Our contention is that, due to formal and conceptual inadequacies of geometrical dissimilarity metrics and the loss of relevant information, especially when reasoning from the physical to the socio-economical level, purported inferences from climate analogues of the spatial kind we consider here prove limited in a number of ways. Indeed, we formulate five outstanding problems concerning the search for best analogues, which we call the problem of non-uniqueness of the source, problem of non-uniqueness of the target, problem of average, problem of non-causal correlations and problem of inferred properties, respectively. In the face of such problems, we then offer two positive recommendations for a fruitful application of this methodology to the assessment of impact, adaptation and vulnerability studies of climate change, especially in the context of what we may prosaically dub “twin cities”. Arguably, such recommendations help decision-makers constrain the set of plausible climate analogues by integrating local knowledge relevant to the target locations.
Relatori/Relatrici
GIOVANNI VALENTE - Polytechnic University of Milan
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Data e luogo
Inizio: 29/04/2024
alle ore 16:00
Fine: 29/04/2024
alle ore 18:00
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Dipartimento di Scienze Pure e Applicate
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