Macroeconomic models play a crucial role in decision making and federal budget planning but may not fully account for the economic disruptions caused by extreme climate-related impacts (e.g., extreme ...

Changes in rainfall within global monsoon regions affect the livelihoods of billions. For years, climate models have ...

Researchers have long been puzzled by the observed cooling of the eastern tropical Pacific and the Southern Ocean accompanying global warming. Existing climate models have failed to capture this ...

The result is an astronomical number of calculations. Performing them requires computers capable of executing quadrillions of operations per second – what are known as petaflop-scale supercomputers. A ...

It is a truism that children are our future, but despite being trite, it is nonetheless important to reflect upon. Today’s young people will decide whether the American experiment as a constitutional ...

“Clearly, the idea of a systems approach is to capture the full impact of climate change; right now, we are capturing snippets.”—Georges Benjamin “Modeling to understand systems at any level is ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ian writes on fossil energies, climate, and transition to renewables. The recent Department of Energy Report, A Critical Review of ...

I’ve been reflecting a lot lately on climate anxiety — and on the feelings of helplessness that have simmered in the hearts and minds of so many friends and colleagues. The future of our planet has ...

Over the past 60 years, scientists have largely succeeded in building a computer model of Earth to see what the future holds. One of the most ambitious projects humankind has ever undertaken has now ...