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"Our climate models are stuck in the 70s, the resolution – how clearly we can know the specifics of the climate in a particular region – of our current models is poor" says Tim Palmer


2023 was the hottest year ever. But we still don't understand the climate and our models don't predict it accurately, and they need to. With crisis around the corner, Tim Palmer argues that the only way we can mitigate let alone solve climate change is with a CERN for climate models. Otherwise we’ll be stuck in the 1970s in an ever more inhospitable world.

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