Climate Changed

In Climate Changed, a well-chosen, multidisciplinary set of authors looks at the climate problem through the lens of the various types of models we use to understand it, with a particular emphasis on risks and opportunities for the built environment. Through that lens, a kaleidoscopic view emerges of the whole chain connecting knowledge to action. It’s an innovative, insightful, and thoughtfully edited volume that should be of interest to a very broad range of scholars and practitioners. -- Adam H. Sobel, author of <i>Storm Surge: Hurricane Sandy, Our Warming Planet, and the Extreme Weather of the Past and Future </i> Models reveal whether approximations of complexity are likely to fit in real life. The essays here consider climate models from different disciplinary perspectives, turning the Swiss cheese of our necessarily simplified climate models into an intriguing conversation about what we can see through the holes. -- Kristina Hill, University of California, Berkeley Through a vast range of disciplinary perspectives, this book captures the mosaic of interests, biases, limitations, and opportunities that arise in the attempt to model complex phenomena. From the science and art of atmospheres to the emerging world of uncertainty, Climate Changed goes beyond despair to get at the heart of our dilemma. -- John E. Fernandez, director, MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative