A large scholarship currently holds that before the onset of anthropogenic global warming,
natural climatic changes long provoked subsistence crises and, occasionally, civilizational …

Working Group I (WGI) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assesses
the current evidence on the physical science of climate change, evaluating knowledge …

Abstract Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) have gained a prominent role in the climate
science-policy interface. The article reconstructs the evolution of IAMs and their changing …

Highlights•Arts and humanities allow more open & energetic engagement with climate
futures.•They are not late-phase communications tools that service scientific research.•Arts …

In the last two decades, a highly instrumentalist form of statistical and machine learning has
achieved an extraordinary success as the computational heart of the phenomenon glossed …

The article discusses the potential of speculative and improvisational modes of rehearsing
collective futures in the context of the interlinked crises associated with the Anthropocene …

This commentary provides a critical account of Earth system modeling history. It argues that
Earth system modeling is not simply a domain of science but also a form of politics. Earth …

After suffering heavy losses from a string of natural disasters in the early 1990s, the US (re)
insurance sector embraced a new technology called catastrophe, or 'cat', models to help …

The futures of humanity and planet Earth are at stake. This is reflected not only in the
increasingly dire future imaginations of billions of people around the world but also in an …

Uncertainties are everywhere. Whether it's climate change, financial volatility, pandemic
outbreaks or new technologies, we don't know what the future will hold. For many …