Gary W. Yohe

TL;DR: A specific economic approach to adaptation demonstrates that research can serve two functions: It can play an important role in diminishing future harm suggested by standard impact analyses by focusing attention on systems where adaptation can buy the most time, and it can help societies learn how to become more robust under current conditions.

TL;DR: In this article, a space of "not-implausible" scenarios for Egypt's future under climate change is defined along two dimensions: the first dimension depicts representative climate change and climate variability scenarios that span the realm of possibility; the second dimension, defined as "anthropogenic" social/economic/political scenarios describe the holistic environment within which the determinants of adaptive capacity for water management, agriculture and coastal zone management must be assessed.

TL;DR: In the context of climate change, the search for efficient solutions to the policy problem has evolved into using elaborate, regionally disaggregated integrated assessment models to judge the relative expected benefits and costs of various policy options across a wide range of possible futures as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The authors summarizes an IPCC workshop which was convened to discuss how to communicate areas of risk and uncertainty in the 4th IPCC Assessment Report, and summarizes an earlier version of this report The authors.

TL;DR: In a recent special issue of the journal Climatic Change, the authors of the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) as mentioned in this paper presented a guidance document for the authors to describe and communicate uncertainty with particular emphasis on increased consistency.