Understanding climate activism: Who participates in climate marches such as “Fridays for Future” and what can we learn from it?

What might we learn from climate forecasts?

Most climate models are large dynamical systems involving a million (or more) variables on big computers. Given that they are nonlinear and not perfect, what can we expect to learn from them about the earth's climate? How can we determine which aspects of their output might be useful and which are noise? And how should we distribute resources between making them "better," estimating variables o...

What might we learn from Climate Fore asts ?

What Can We Learn from 21 Years of School Poisonings in New Zealand?

Background: Childhood poisoning is a significant international health concern. Very little is known about trends in exposures within schools and preschools. The objectives of this study were to investigate the data recorded by the New Zealand National Poisons Centre (NPC) on these types of exposures over a 21 year period (1989 to 2009) and to determine trends and propose strategies to reduce th...

China's Export Strategy: What Can We Learn From It?

As much as by luck as by design, China stumbled onto an export and foreign investment strategy that has proved remarkably successful, helping the economy move quickly to a market-based system. But can the Chinese experience serve as a model for other countries? After three decades of inward-oriented trade and foreign investment policies, in 1979, China switched course and launched an "open-door...

What Can We Learn about Climate Model Runs from Their Causal Signatures?

This study applies methods from causal discovery theory to the output data of climate models. Causal discovery seeks to identify potential cause-effect relationships from data and is used here to learn so-called causal signatures from the data that indicate interactions between the different atmospheric variables. We hope that these causal signatures can act like finger prints for the underlyin...