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SUMMARY:T4Science/DK Guest Lecture: Between Scylla and Charybdis: Can Clim
 ate Science be Ethical and Legitimate at the Same Time? (by Markus Dressel
 )
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DESCRIPTION:Climate scientists find themselves in a dilemma: On the one ha
 nd\, their possession of climate-related knowledge implies an ethical obli
 gation to help averting dangerous climate change. On the other hand\, clim
 ate scientists are not authorized to prescribe policy. However\, illegitim
 ate prescription comes in degrees and includes\, for instance\, epistemic 
 overconfidence. The trouble is that maximizing legitimacy by communicating
  only claims “beyond reasonable doubt” minimizes effectiveness\, there
 by undermining the climate scientist´s ethical obligations.\n\nIn this pa
 per\, I discuss three common reactions to this dilemma: The moralist strat
 egy to subordinate democratic values to ethical ones\; the decisionist str
 ategy to subordinate ethical values to democratic ones\; and the reconcili
 ation strategy to serve both values by distinguishing between expert and c
 itizen roles for scientists. I argue that\, while the first two strategies
  are normatively inappropriate\, the third strategy can only mitigate\, bu
 t not resolve the dilemma. Ultimately\, I argue\, we have to accept the di
 lemma and interpret the climate scientist’s situation as what it is – 
 a delicate balancing act between two evils. A beneficial consequence of th
 is view is the prevention of unconscious biases towards either side of the
  dilemma.
LOCATION:SR Wegener Center\, Brandhofgasse 5\, 1st floor
ORGANIZER;CN="Douglas Maraun";ROLE=CHAIR:MAILTO:douglas.maraun@uni-graz.at
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