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SPARC conducts research, education and outreach to improve the ability of climate science policies to support climate-related decision making
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SPARC Events & Talks
Marilyn Averill, CSTPR/IBS-ESP Noontime Seminar, The Role of the Courts in U.S. Climate Policy, November 16, 2009.
Yohei Mitani, CSTPR/IBS-ESP Noontime Seminar, The Effects of Ecological Information Provision, December 7, 2009.
Max Boykoff, AGU Workshop on Communicating Climate Change: Media, Dialogue, and Public Engagement, Dec. 13, 2009.

SPARC Announcements
New AMS Journal now out: Weather, Climate, and Society.
Final workshop reports now available: Climate Change & Disaster Losses, Water Stressors, RISAs, & Carbon Cycle Sci.
New Publications
Catastrophe Losses in the Context of Demographics, Climate, and Policy
Climate predictions and observations
Dangerous assumptions
Blinded by Assumptions
Overheated Claims
PIELKE and GREEN: The cure for carbon
Europe’s climate policy may be more about appearances
An Idealized Assessment of the Economics of Air Capture of Carbon Dioxide in Mitigation Policy
Obama’s Climate Policy: A Work in Progress
Collateral Damage from the Death of Stationarity
The British Climate Change Act: A Critical Evaluation and Proposed Alternative Approach
How to get climate policy back on course
Climate Prediction: A Limit to Adaptation?
The Folly of ‘Magical Solutions’ For Targeting Carbon Emissions
A Perspective Paper on Climate Engineering: Including an Analysis of Carbon Capture as a Response to Climate Change
Science-Policy Interfaces for more effective governance of Biodiversity and Ecosystem services
United States hurricane landfalls and damages: Can one-to five-year predictions beat climatology?
Mamizu climate policy: an evaluation of Japanese carbon emissions reduction targets
Understanding the Copenhagen Climate Deal: The Fix is In
Do We Need Better Predictions to Adapt to a Changing Climate?
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Latest entry: Postdoctoral Position in Science, Technology and Society at The John F. Kennedy School of Government and the School of Engineering...
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SPARC Spotlight
Congrats to SPARC for winning NSF supplement to extend its work on the "supply of science" theme...
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