Uploaded December 2017 | Updated September 2026, 13 hours ago
If the global climate warms, how will this affect human societies around the world? Science fiction books and movies speculate about possible futures, but what do the data say? In this presentation to the 10th World Conference of Science Journalists in San Francisco, CA, on October 28, 2017, Solomon Hsiang of the University of California, Berkeley explained research advances using data science to illuminate how human societies around the world are shaped by the climate, focusing on his recent work tracing out the effects of climate change on economic inequality, violence, and social stability around the world. By understanding how the climate influences our lives in these basic ways, this research is restructuring how we understand the implications of different climate policies.
If the global climate warms, how will this affect human societies around the world? Science fiction books and movies speculate about possible futures, but what do the data say? In this presentation to the 10th World Conference of Science Journalists in San Francisco, CA, on October 28, 2017, Solomon Hsiang of the University of California, Berkeley explained research advances using data science to illuminate how human societies around the world are shaped by the climate, focusing on his recent work tracing out the effects of climate change on economic inequality, violence, and social stability around the world. By understanding how the climate influences our lives in these basic ways, this research is restructuring how we understand the implications of different climate policies.
