The World Ahead | Science & technology in 2025
Supercomputers and AI are helping build better climate models
The coming year will be a big one for the advance of climate science
By Rachel Dobbs, Environment editor, The Economist
At the end of the 19th century Svante Arrhenius, a Swedish chemist, made one of the first concerted attempts to work out the relationship between Earth’s average temperature and the amount of carbon dioxide in its atmosphere.
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This article appeared in the Science & technology section of the print edition of The World Ahead 2025 under the headline “Sensitivity about climate”
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