Are climate models detecting monsoon changes a decade too early? 'Super-simulations' say yes

Changes in rainfall within global monsoon regions affect the livelihoods of billions. For years, climate models have suggested that the fingerprint of human-caused climate change on monsoons would ...
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Climate Scientists Used the World’s Most Powerful Supercomputers to Find Out if Middle Earth and Westeros Could Actually Exist

In this spirit of rigorous worldbuilding, we just published a new study where we merged the disparate disciplines of literary worldbuilding and climate modelling. We used complex computer programs – ...
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Behind every COP is a global data project that predicts Earth's future—here's how it works

Over the past week we've witnessed the many political discussions that go with the territory of a COP—or, more verbosely, the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on ...
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Australia's climate future: New model goes global

Climate change will shape everything about life in Australia—from the homes we live in and the food we grow to the risks of bushfires, floods, and heat waves. But what will that future look like? We ...

The climate cost of staying cool: How AC could impact global warming by 2050

It is a double-edged sword. As the planet heats up, more of us are turning up and turning to air conditioning to keep us cool. The trouble is that, as well as consuming vast amounts of electricity, AC ...
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Behind every COP is a global data project that predicts Earth’s future. Here’s how it works

Andy Hogg works for Australia's Climate Simulator (ACCESS-NRI), based at the Australian National University. He receives funding for ACCESS-NRI from the Department of Education through the National ...