PREDICTING THE FUTURE

From modest beginnings, weather and climate models have come to dominate our days. Drew Rooke takes a tour across nearly two centuries to report on the scientists from a range of disciplines who have brought us to an extraordinary modelling moment.

CLIMATE MODELLING

The computer screen radiates line after line of strange text: black letters, numbers and symbols on a light grey background. Scrolling through, it seems to be never-ending and – at least for me – mostly unintelligible; I’m not fluent in Fortran, the...

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