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What do IPCC reports on climate change really mean? Their acronyms can overwhelm, but the message from their scientific consensus is important.

‘Everybody’s climate midwife’ and others on the front line find and share hope through action

Climate scientists who have been through a lot both personally and professionally say the key is often action.

‘Everybody’s climate midwife’ and others on the front line find and share hope through action

‘Everybody’s climate midwife’ and others on the front line find and share hope through action

‘Everybody’s climate midwife’ and others on the front line find and share hope through action

‘Everybody’s climate midwife’ and others on the front line find and share hope through action

Hope and optimism often blossom in the experts toiling in the gloomy fields of global warming,COVID-19 and Alzheimers disease. How climate scientists like Gill or emergency room doctors during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic cope with their depressing day-to-day work, yet remain hopeful, can offer help to ordinary people dealing with a world going off the rails, psychologists said.

Many climate scientists share a sense of optimism with professionals in other tough jobs like emergency room doctors and researchers who study Alzheimers disease even as they chronicle a world losing its protective balance with the sun. Psychologists say how those experts cope may help us in a world that seems to be going off the rails.

Climate scientists who have been through a lot both personally and professionally say the key is often action.