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Sean Carroll's Mindscape · May 20, 2024 · 80m
276 | Gavin Schmidt on Measuring, Predicting, and Protecting Our Climate
NASA GISS director Gavin Schmidt on climate modeling, prediction, and what we can and can't know about the future climate. The science is clearer than the politics — and the gap between scientific certainty and political action is the real crisis.
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Schmidt: climate scientists can measure what's happening and model what's likely. They can't control whether policymakers act. The Stoic response: provide the best information possible and accept that policy decisions are outside your control.
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Schmidt: climate is the environment that shapes all other environments. When the climate changes, everything built on the assumption of stable climate — agriculture, cities, ecosystems — must change too.
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