How to cope with grief and find wonder as Earth's climate changes

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  Kate Marvel has watched the world end many times.

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  She's a physicist who works with climate models.

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  You can do terrible things to the planet in a climate model.

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  You can set off a volcano.

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  You can remove all the land.

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  You can remove all the water.

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  You can make the Earth spin backward.

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  You can do any experiment you want within these climate models.

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  Climate change isn't just happening in the computer models.

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  It's happening here.

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  Kate has watched sea levels rise and temperatures climb.

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  She's watched weather become more and more extreme.

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  And she started to realize that it was affecting her to see this happening to our planet,

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  both in her climate models and in real life.

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  I was struggling a little bit at first because I had these feelings.

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  But at the same time, I was a scientist.

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  And I thought, oh, aren't scientists supposed to be cold and objective and neutral?

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  And I felt bad that I was feeling things when I was watching the climate change around me.

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  And then, you know, I kind of realized, like,

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  I can't be objective because I live on Earth and everybody and everything that I love is here.

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