Special Feature 1 – The Abyss of Global Warming Future vision of the earth as defined by the Earth Simulator

From abnormal weather conditions such as heat waves and huge typhoons to changes in the fish prices at supermarkets, global warming is becoming a compelling issue that also has a large impact on our lives. However, the earth seems to look somewhat different in the eye of an expert who calculates the “earth’s future” based on massive data and computations detached from such human subjectivity and actual feelings, as if to calculate the parabola of a thrown ball.