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Section 1; Chapter 1: The obvious and the obscure; Chapter 2: A problem of prediction; Chapter 3: Going beyond what we’ve seen; Chapter 4: The one-shot bet.; Chapter 5: From chaos to pandemonium; Chapter 6: The curse of bigger and better computers; Chapter 7: Talking at cross purposes; Chapter 8: Not just of academic interest; Section 2; Challenge 1: How to balance justified arrogance with essential humility.; Chapter 9 - Stepping up to the task of prediction; Chapter 10 The Times They Are A Changin’; Chapter 11 Starting from scratch; Chapter 12 Are scientists being asked to answer impossible questions?; Challenge 2: Tying down what we mean by climate and climate change. ; Chapter 13 The essence of climate; Chapter 14 A Walk in Three Dimensions; Chapter 15 A walk in three dimensions over a two dimensional sea; Challenge 3: When is a study with a climate model a study of climate change?; Chapter 16 Climate change in climate models; Challenge 4: How can we measure what climate is now and how it has changed?; Chapter 17 Measuring climate change; Challenge 5: How can we relate what happens in a model to what will happen in reality?; Chapter 18 - Can climate models be realistic?; Chapter 19 More models, better information?; Chapter 20 How bad is too bad?; Challenge 6: How can we use today’s climate science well?; Chapter 21 - What we do with what we’ve got; Challenge 7: Getting a grip on the scale of future changes in climate?; Chapter 22 - Stuff of the Genesis myth; Chapter 23 Things ... can only get hotter; Challenge 8: How can we use the information we have, or could have, to design a future that is better than it would otherwise be?; Chapter 24 - Making it personal; Chapter 25 - Where physics and economics meet.; Challenge 9: How can we build physical and social science that is up to the task of informing society about what matters for society?; Chapter 26 - Controlling factors.; Chapter 27 - Beyond comprehension? No, just new challenges for human intellect.

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