{"id":4521,"date":"2011-06-28T15:33:13","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T15:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/granthaminstitute\/?post_type=news&#038;p=4521"},"modified":"2017-08-01T15:11:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T14:11:10","slug":"confidence-from-uncertainty-new-exhibit-at-the-royal-society-on-interpreting-climate-predictions","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/granthaminstitute\/news\/confidence-from-uncertainty-new-exhibit-at-the-royal-society-on-interpreting-climate-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Confidence from uncertainty&#8217; &#8211; new exhibit at the Royal Society on interpreting climate predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<?xml encoding=\"UTF-8\"><p>What will the effects of climate change actually mean to our society? Providing such details is a huge forecasting problem, and one of today&rsquo;s great scientific challenges.<\/p>\n<p>This exhibit aims to explore how predictions are made and communicated, how and when probabilities can be deduced, and the role of computer models in these processes. It will involve interactive computer-based probability games and hands-on physical games to do so.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibit is part of 2011&rsquo;s Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, which runs from 5-10 July.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"David Stainforth\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/granthaminstitute\/profile\/david-stainforth\/\">Dr David Stainforth<\/a>, of LSE&rsquo;s Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and Centre for the Analysis of Time Series (CATS), is leading the preparation of the exhibit.<\/p>\n<h3>More information<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><a class=\"link link--external\" title=\"Royal Society events page on Confidence from Uncertainty exhibit\" href=\"https:\/\/royalsociety.org\/summer-science\/2011\/confidence-uncertainty\/\" aria-describedby=\"link-description-new-window\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Royal Society events page&#65279;<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewbox=\"0 0 16 16\" role=\"img\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M14.42 1.04L3.2.7a.8.8 0 00-.8.76v.1a.8.8 0 00.76.7l9.39.3L.93 14.16c-.3.3-.3.8 0 1.1l.09.08c.3.23.73.2 1.01-.07L13.65 3.65l.29 9.4a.8.8 0 00.8.76.79.79 0 00.77-.8L15.17 1.8a.82.82 0 00-.75-.76z\" fill=\"#2e3152\"><\/path><\/svg><\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<?xml encoding=\"UTF-8\"><p>This exhibit, from 5-10 July, aims to explore how predictions are made and communicated, how and when probabilities can be deduced, and the role of computer models in these processes. It will involve interactive computer-based probability games and hands-on physical games to do so. Dr David Stainforth is leading its preparation.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[17],"topic_area":[],"class_list":["post-4521","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news-category-40-announcement"],"acf":{"downloads":{"ref_value":"field_52f16cc1a80f2","value":false,"type":"repeater","post_type":""},"profile_link":{"ref_value":"field_52f164b5189e9","value":["david-stainforth"],"type":"relationship","post_type":"profile"},"spotlight":{"ref_value":"field_52f80896506d3","value":"","type":false,"post_type":""},"exclude_from_sync":{"ref_value":"field_560538b0e7350","value":"0","type":false,"post_type":""},"rss_newsletter":{"ref_value":"field_54f5c2c1544d8","value":"","type":false,"post_type":""}},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Confidence from uncertainty&#039; - new exhibit at the Royal Society on interpreting climate predictions - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/granthaminstitute\/news\/confidence-from-uncertainty-new-exhibit-at-the-royal-society-on-interpreting-climate-predictions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&#039;Confidence from uncertainty&#039; - new exhibit at the Royal Society on interpreting climate predictions - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This exhibit, from 5-10 July, aims to explore how predictions are made and communicated, how and when probabilities can be deduced, and the role of computer models in these processes. 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