Physicist Shaun Hendy worked on New Zealand’s Covid-19 response, providing models of disease spread. In this extract from Living with the Climate Crisis: Voices from Aotearoa, Hendy writes about applying mathematical models to Covid, and to the climate crisis. He finished his talk by applying a mathematical model to the future of Australia’s climate. Much as Australia’s government has dithered on climate change and in its response to last summer’s bushfire crisis, it initially proved a reluctant manager of the Covid-19 crisis. Living with the Climate Crisis: Voices from Aotearoa is edited by Tom Doig and published as part of the BWB Texts series.

Source: Stuff December 06, 2020 15:56 UTC