Rob Thieler from U.S. Geological Survey Presentation - Connecticut ...

Informing Decisions in a Changing ClimateNational Research Council (2009)The end of “Climate Stationarity” requires thatorganizations and individuals alter their standardpractices and decision routines to take climatechange into account. Scientific priorities andpractices need to change so that the scientificcommunity can provide better support todecision makers in managing emerging climaterisks.• Decision makers must expect to be surprisedbecause of the nature of climate change andthe incompleteness of scientificunderstanding of its consequences.• An uncertainty management frameworkshould be used because of the inadequaciesof predictive capability.