A Perspective suggests that to address the magnitude of the global threat posed by climate change, climate scientists should apply the urgency of the Space Race to enact a step-change in the ability of climate models to approximate natural systems, harnessing new technological capacity to expand understanding of regional climate systems; such an effort is likely to be most effective if scaled up through international initiatives where human and computational resources are pooled, according to the authors.
Article #19-06691: "The scientific challenge of understanding and estimating climate change," by Tim Palmer and Bjorn Stevens
MEDIA CONTACT: Tim Palmer, University of Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM; e-mail: Tim.Palmer@physics.ox.ac.uk
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