Dr Judith Curry writes on the upcoming Lisbon conference "Workshop on Reconciliation in the Climate Change Debate"

This week, I will be in Lisbon attending a Workshop on Reconciliation in the Climate Change Debate.  The Workshop was conceptualized by Jerome Ravetz,Silvio Funtowicz, James Risbey, and Jeroen van der Sluijs. While I (relatively) rarely travel overseas for meetings, I jumped at this invitation.  The topic is certainly intriguing and an issue that I have spent a great deal of time pondering over the last year.  Further, I really want to meet Ravetz, Funtowicz, Risbey, and van der Sluijs, whose papers I have been avidly reading over the past year, including citing them on a number of Climate Etc threads: Climate Science and the Uncertainty Monster No Consensus on Consensus Decision Making Under Climate Uncertainty. Part I Overconfidence in IPCC Detection and Attribution. Part III Extended Peer Community Waving the Italian Flag. Part I:  Uncertainty and Pedigree Politics of Climate Expertise: Part II What has impressed me about their writings is that they recognize that climate change is not only a scientific subject, but also a political, economical, and ethical subject. More here.