Human intuition often does not lead to thoughtful long-term decision making. In partial remedy to this, a long history of storytelling conveys messages about what is worth remembering, worth doing, or best avoided. Stories also help to shape visions of what is possible and desirable. Scientific models are used in the same way. For example, the modeling study by Cheung et al. on page 1591 of this issue indicates that making the effort to keep global temperature increases to 1.5°C would minimize impacts on marine food security and resilience. The work is an important addition to the discussion of the costs and benefits of keeping the average global temperature rise to less than 2°C.

Item Type:	Contribution to Refereed Journal
Keywords:	climate change, global food security, global temperature rise
Research Division:	Environmental Sciences
Research Group:	Climate change impacts and adaptation
Research Field:	Ecological impacts of climate change and ecological adaptation
Objective Division:	Environmental Policy, Climate Change and Natural Hazards
Objective Group:	Understanding climate change
Objective Field:	Climate change models
UTAS Author:	Fulton, EA (Dr Elizabeth Fulton)
ID Code:	114504
Year Published:	2016
Web of Science® Times Cited:	4
Deposited By:	Fisheries and Aquaculture
Deposited On:	2017-02-16
Last Modified:	2017-12-14
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