Behind long-term climate projections sit one of the most remarkable scientific achievements of the modern era: climate models that run on supercomputers.
A climate data scientist explains how the models work:
@TheConversationUS "Artificial intelligence cannot replace this foundation either. AI has made impressive progress in short-term weather prediction, learning patterns from vast historical datasets, and producing forecasts with remarkable speed.
But climate projections require extrapolating to conditions the planet has not experienced in modern history – such as higher greenhouse gas concentrations. AI can accelerate simulations and analyze massive amounts of data today, but it cannot replace solving the physical equations that govern the system."
