Kate Marvel spends her days playing with climate models, which she says are “like a very expensive version of The Sims.” As a physicist she gets tired of being asked to weigh in on economics, geopolitics, and despair — but she still defends the right of scientists to have strong feelings about the planet. <ul><li>SOURCES:<ul><li><a href="https://www.marvelclimate.com/">Kate Marvel</a>, climate scientist and science writer.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>RESOURCES:<ul><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Human-Nature-About-Changing-Planet/dp/0063241536">Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet</a>, by Kate Marvel (2025).</li><li>"<a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/355427/americans-concerned-global-warming.aspx">Are Americans Concerned About Global Warming?</a>" (Gallup, 2024).</li><li>"<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmk7nAvpMXQ">Can clouds buy us more time to solve climate change?</a>" by Kate Marvel (TED, 2017).</li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/SuperFreakonomics-Cooling-Patriotic-Prostitutes-Insurance/dp/0060889586">SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance</a>, by Stephen Dubner and Steve Levitt (2011).</li><li>"<a href="https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/about/projects/global-warmings-six-americas/">Global Warming’s Six Americas</a>," (Yale Program on Climate Change Communication).</li><li>"<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LGHtc_D328">Fred Rogers: Look for the Helpers</a>."</li></ul></li></ul>

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