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Are we all doomed? How to cope with the daunting uncertainties of climate change

It’s easy to feel overwhelmed when thinking about the damage that might be wrought by global warming — but that is missing the point.
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  1. Adam Sobel

    1. Adam Sobel is an atmospheric scientist at Columbia University in New York, and hosts a podcast called Deep Convection.

Person watching a forest fire on a hilltop across the valley with black smoke rising from a line of burning trees

Wildfires are getting fiercer faster than anyone predicted — just one factor fuelling an atmosphere of climate doom. Credit: Konstantinos Tsakalidis/Bloomberg/Getty

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How doomed are we? It’s a question I have been asked as a climate scientist many times over the years, sometimes with “doomed” replaced by less printable synonyms.

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Nature 627, 483-485 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00790-6

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Competing Interests

A.S. is on the external advisory board of Jupiter Intelligence, Inc., and receives sponsored research funding in his position at Columbia University from companies in the (re)insurance industry.

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