Adrian Currie (University of Calgary)Title: Paleo-Climate & Future-ClimateUnderstanding the climate’s deep past is essential for understanding its future, however the nature of the paleoclimatological record is problematic. My aim in this paper is to get a conceptual handle on what paleoclimatology can offer climate projections, and what challenges this faces. Climate simulations are validated if [...]

  25 October  2014   Laura Ballantyne-Brodie (New York University) Title: Earth System Ethics: A Proposal for a Systems Approach to Ethics   The news has been delivered and we now understand with near certainty that the industrial economy is at odds with the physical systems of the planet.1 Shocks such as the credit crunch, [...]

Charlotte Werndl (LSE, University of Salzburg)  Abstract: The aim of the paper is to provide a clear and thorough conceptual analysis of the main candidates for a definition of climate and climate change. Five desiderata on a definition of climate are presented: it should be empirically applicable, it should correctly classify different climates, it should not [...]