Photo by Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters The immense complexity of the climate makes it impossible to model accurately. Instead we must use uncertainty to our advantage David Stainforth is a professorial research fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of Predicting Our Climate Future: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and What We Can’t Know (2023). Today’s complex climate models aren’t equivalent to reality. In fact, computer models of Earth are very different to reality – particularly on regional, national and local scales. They don’t … Continue reading The model of catastrophe