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“If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics of this...it would be absolute lunacy to act as if climate change is not occurring.”

Quote by Nicholas Stern

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Nicholas Stern is a renowned British economist known for his contributions to the field of climate change economics. Born on April 22, 1946, he has served as the Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank. more

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“Access to supercomputers. The science is well ahead of our ability to implement it. It's quite clear that if we could run our models at a higher resolution we could do a much better job-tomorrow-in terms of our seasonal and decadal predictions. It's so frustrating. We keep saying we need four times the computing power. We're talking just 10 or 20 million a year-dollars or pounds-which is tiny compared to the damage done by disasters. Yet it's a difficult argument to win.”