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Hand-drawn xkcd-style grid of twelve mock journal pages under the heading "TYPES OF CLIMATE SCIENCE PAPER". Titles: "Here's a bad thing about climate change you hadn't even even thought about"; "We have modeled all future human behaviour with a single equation"; "Maybe we could block the sun?"; "Man, clouds are really complicated"; "Only veganism will save us"; "We have inferred historical temperatures from some…

Twelve Types of Climate Science Paper, Ranked by Despair

A Randall Munroe xkcd-style comic sorting climate science papers into twelve familiar types, from "we need more data" to "worse than we thought." Smart, dry science humor.

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Hand-drawn xkcd-style grid of twelve mock journal pages under the heading "TYPES OF CLIMATE SCIENCE PAPER". Titles: "Here's a bad thing about climate change you hadn't even even thought about"; "We have modeled all future human behaviour with a single equation"; "Maybe we could block the sun?"; "Man, clouds are really complicated"; "Only veganism will save us"; "We have inferred historical temperatures from some…

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