Confidence of Life Detection: The Problem of Unconceived Alternatives

Organic synthesis associated with serpentinization and carbonation on early Mars

(2022) A. Steele et al.   SCIENCE

The case and context for atmospheric methane as an exoplanet biosignature

(2022) Maggie A. Thompson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Arguing About Extraterrestrial Intelligence

(2022) Christopher Cowie   PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY

Confidence levels and likelihood terms in IPCC reports: a survey of experts from different scientific disciplines

(2022) A. Kause et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

The Evolution of Communicating the Uncertainty of Climate Change to Policymakers: A Study of IPCC Synthesis Reports

(2021) Tomas Molina et al.   Sustainability

False biosignatures on Mars: anticipating ambiguity

(2021) Sean McMahon et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Call for a framework for reporting evidence for life beyond Earth

(2021) James Green et al.   NATURE

Cross-examining Earth’s oldest stromatolites: Seeing through the effects of heterogeneous deformation, metamorphism and metasomatism affecting Isua (Greenland) ∼3700 Ma sedimentary rocks

(2019) Allen P. Nutman et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Exoplanet Biosignatures: A Review of Remotely Detectable Signs of Life

(2018) Edward W. Schwieterman et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Exoplanet Biosignatures: Understanding Oxygen as a Biosignature in the Context of Its Environment

(2018) Victoria S. Meadows et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Exoplanet Biosignatures: Future Directions

(2018) Sara I. Walker et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Exoplanet Biosignatures: A Framework for Their Assessment

(2018) David C. Catling et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

A morphogram for silica-witherite biomorphs and its application to microfossil identification in the early earth rock record

(2018) J. Rouillard et al.   Geobiology

Disequilibrium biosignatures over Earth history and implications for detecting exoplanet life

(2018) Joshua Krissansen-Totton et al.   Science Advances

Reassessing evidence of life in 3,700-million-year-old rocks of Greenland

(2018) Abigail C. Allwood et al.   NATURE

Unleashing expert judgment in assessment

(2017) Katharine J. Mach et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

“Agreement” in the IPCC Confidence measure

(2017) William Rehg et al.   STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN PHYSICS

3.46 Ga Apex chert ‘microfossils’ reinterpreted as mineral artefacts produced during phyllosilicate exfoliation

(2016) David Wacey et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Rapid emergence of life shown by discovery of 3,700-million-year-old microbial structures

(2016) Allen P. Nutman et al.   NATURE

The No Alternatives Argument

(2014) R. Dawid et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

The interpretation of IPCC probabilistic statements around the world

(2014) David V. Budescu et al.   Nature Climate Change

The limits for life under multiple extremes

(2013) Jesse P. Harrison et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Biomimetic Properties of Minerals and the Search for Life in the Martian Meteorite ALH84001

(2012) Jan Martel et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Damn the Consequences: Projective Evidence and the Heterogeneity of Scientific Confirmation

(2012) P. Kyle Stanford   PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Effective communication of uncertainty in the IPCC reports

(2011) David V. Budescu et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Treatment of uncertainties in IPCC Assessment Reports: past approaches and considerations for the Fifth Assessment Report

(2011) Michael D. Mastrandrea et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

The IPCC AR5 guidance note on consistent treatment of uncertainties: a common approach across the working groups

(2011) Michael D. Mastrandrea et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Discovery of extra-terrestrial life: assessment by scales of its importance and associated risks

(2011) I. Almar et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES