Climate in Crisis

Sue Nethercott
5 min readOct 29, 2023

I thought that the worst of the climate crisis would not happen until after I was dead. And I thought that climate models would get better at predicting it. I was wrong on both counts.

warming stripes showing global temperature change (1850–2022) — it has got much hotter
warming stripes showing global temperature change (1850–2022) — by Ed Hawkins

I’ve worried about the environment for over 20 years — I began my BSc in Environmental Studies in 2003. Since that time, climate models have become much more sophisticated, and some theories have come and gone, or changed in importance. I remember…

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Sue Nethercott

Open University BA, UMIST MSc, OU BSc Environmental Studies. Interests: environment, COVID19. Double #ostomate. Thom Hartmann’s newsletter editor. Views my own.