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2 Major Overarching Comments
2 Major Overarching Comments
Pages 7-10
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The committee finds that the draft SAP 5.2 provides a well-written and concise synthesis of some of the key issues regarding the characterization of scientific uncertainty vis-à-vis climate decision making. The draft provides a particularly good synthesis of the issues regarding cognitive challenges on an individual basis to characterizing uncertainty, the potential implications of those challenges for CCSP and other assessment efforts, and a method of characterizing uncertainty when conventional methods are not practical or adequate (expert elicitation)
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This focus neglects assessments, including other Synthesis and Assessment Products, associated with the observational record. There is a need to discuss more traditional frequentist methods, which remain dominant in scientific work, and objective Bayesian methods based on non-informative prior distributions.
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The committee finds that the lack of an executive summary hinders its accessibility to the audiences named in the prospectus. A concise and readable summary of the document, including key findings and recommendations, would enable all audiences -- producers of synthesis and assessment products, scientific researchers, decision-makers, media, and the general public -- to glean the main points and to locate further information that may be of interest to them.
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