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Could we control our climate?
Could we control our climate?

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4 What are the challenges?

‘Climate’ is really a mathematical concept, not something that can be observed directly, and its definition is not exact or fixed. The fact that climate is a distribution – a set of probabilities – is at the heart of many of the difficulties in studying the climate crisis. It also influences public understanding and decision-making around the subject.