Searching For The Catastrophe Signal The Origins Of The Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change Bernie Lewin Lewin by Bernie Lewin [lewin, Bernie] 9780995620803, 0995620806 instant download after payment.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – the IPCC – is the global authority on climate science and behind some of the most important policy changes in the history of industrial society. It is therefore probably the most influential scientific body in the world.
Yet the surprising story of how it came to prominence is little known. Its origins can be traced back to earlier panics over the effects of supersonic transportation and ozone layer depletion, which taught political elites that science-based scares could be powerful drivers of policy action. It was as an authority fit to deliver the required evidence on climate change that the IPCC came into being. 
However, in the rush towards a climate treaty, IPCC scientists continued to report that evidence of manmade climate change was scarce and that confirmation of a manmade effect should not be expected for decades. Without a `catastrophe signal' that could justify a policy response, the panel faced its imminent demise.

BiographyBernie Lewin is an amateur historian and philosopher of science based in Melbourne, Australia.
His historical interests include: ancient Pythagorean mathematics; Catholic skepticism of the 16th Century; the epistemological revolution begun during the Restoration of the British monarchy in the 17th Century; and the 'Foundation of Mathematics' controversy that started in the late 19th century. A recent interest in the corruption of post-WWII state-funded natural science led to his first published book, 'Searching for the Catastrophe Signal'.
If there is one word to describe his philosophical view it is Platonism. This underlies his history investigations as well as his approach to George Spencer Brown's 'Laws of Form' (1969). 'Laws of Form' presents the 'Boolean arithmetic' elementary to logic and all forms of arithmetic. For Lewin, 'Laws of Form' might well herald a revival of Platonic science by showing a better way -- a more Pythagorean way (i.e., self-referencing, non-analytical) -- to build a hierarchy of infinite numbers and, in doing so, forge a new relationship with geometry. This view is carefully developed through an historical narrative in his second book, Enthusiastic Mathematics.
Lewin is the founding director of the Platonic Academy of Melbourne.