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This quest for adaptation strategies opens a new chapter in global environmental change research that requires not only continued development of sophisticated climate models (and understanding the processes behind them) but also a new integration of those models with predictive descriptions of human behaviour.
"We need to continue discovering how the Earth system works in order to evaluate the numerous ways that humans can adapt to climate change," says Kevin Noone, IGBP's executive director. The additional challenge is to model unpredictable human behaviour and merge this into deterministic Earth system models, explains Noone.
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Latest IPCC report highlights need for integrated climate/human behavior models:
Climate change around the world
My respect for the IPCC has actually been growing as their focus shifts to adaptation measures. Adaptation is the area we need to focus on -- that, and figuring out whether we are going to continue heating or fall into a deep freeze.
~Paradox