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Nature 438, 285 (17 November 2005) | doi:10.1038/438285a; Published online 16 November 2005

Open Innovation Challenges

Policy needs robust climate science

Aristides Patrinos1 & Anjuli Bamzai1

  1. Aristides Patrinos and Anjuli Bamzai are at the Office of Science, US Department of Energy, Washington, DC 20585, USA.

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The path between climate science and policy is not always linear, argue Aristides Patrinos and Anjuli Bamzai.

Changes in global and regional climates have always played an important role in civilizations. Migrations from Africa to other continents occurred only when the climate was mild enough to permit them, and cautionary tales are told of entire civilizations collapsing after prolonged periods of drought.

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