Constraining Uncertainty in Future Global Climate Projections

From September to December 2023, I worked as a research assistant for the EU-funded project CONSTRAIN. The CONSTRAIN project provided information for policymakers between IPCC cycles. It was made up of European partners and aimed to reduce uncertainty in future global climate projections.

I conducted a series of interviews with researchers to investigate their understanding of uncertainty in their work. I was interested in the pathways this science generates as predictions for the future, and what uncertainty might mean not only as a scientific value but as a lived experience. I produced a large scroll painting exploring these complexities within climate models. I am still deeply interested in the concept of uncertainty in climate models, how variability is embedded in their structure and how the real and felt consequences of climate change parallel this unknowability.

This work was displayed at the COP28 Science for Climate Action Pavilion.