Climate models

Climate models are not certain. So why are scientists so confident?

Katharine Hayhoe knows that climate models are not perfect. “The more you know about models, the less you trust them and the more you blow their tires,” says Dr. Hayhoe, co-director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University. Why we wrote this When planning for the future, certainty can be hard to come […]

Climate models

‘Terrifying’ new climate models warn of 6-7°C warming by 2100 if emissions are not curbed

New climate models unveiled on Tuesday by French researchers showed that the Earth’s average temperature could increase by one “creepy“6.5 to 7.0°C above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century if drastic action is not taken immediately to reduce carbon emissions. The findings, presented at a press conference in Paris, suggest the planet could […]