Valente, Giovanni and Bobadilla, Hernán and El Skaf, Rawad and Nappo, Francesco (2024) Tales of Twin Cities: What Are Climate Analogues Good For? European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 14 (34).

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Abstract

This article 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 locations of interest.

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Item Type:	Published Article or Volume
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Valente, Giovanni giovanni.valente@polimi.it Bobadilla, Hernán hernanfelipe.bobadilla@polimi.it 0000-0003-0003-9952 El Skaf, Rawad rawad.elskaf@polimi.it Nappo, Francesco francesco.nappo@polimi.it
Keywords:	Climate analogues · Climate science · Dissimilarity metrics · Impact · Adaptation and vulnerability assessment
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Climate Science and Meteorology General Issues > Confirmation/Induction General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Values In Science
Depositing User:	Dr. Hernan Bobadilla
Date Deposited:	16 Nov 2024 13:52
Last Modified:	16 Nov 2024 13:52
Item ID:	24233
Journal or Publication Title:	European Journal for Philosophy of Science
Publisher:	Springer
Official URL:	https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13194-0...
DOI or Unique Handle:	https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-024-00597-2
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Climate Science and Meteorology General Issues > Confirmation/Induction General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Values In Science
Date:	2024
Volume:	14
Number:	34
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/24233

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