Science is nuanced. This basic truth certainly holds for the field of atmospheric science, where the complexities of the airy environment are investigated.

The climate science subdiscipline explores one of the most complicated and serious issues of our time: climate change. Yet the story the public often reads concerning current and future climate conditions is overwhelmingly gloomy, even disastrous, and couched in terms of “settled science.”

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