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Climate models have changed the way we view the world. While effective, these models are imperfect, and scientists are constantly looking at ways to improve their accuracy and predictability. MIT professor Elfatih Eltahir has spent decades developing complex models to understand how climate change affects vulnerable regions like the Nile Basin and Singapore.
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When you have warming in the Pacific Ocean, you get drought in the Nile. And when you have cooling in the Pacific Ocean, you tend to have flooding in the Nile.
“the future economic growth is a function of climate change plus technology adoption minus population growth.”
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