Many climate scientists share a sense of optimism with professionals in other tough jobs like emergency room doctors and researchers who study Alzheimer’s Disease even as they chronicle a world losing its protective balance with the sun
How climate scientists like Gill or emergency room doctors during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic cope with their depressing day-to-day work, yet remain hopeful, can offer help to ordinary people dealing with a world going off the rails, psychologists said.
Dr. Kristina Goff works in the intensive care unit at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and said at times sheduring the pandemic. She keeps a file folder at home of"little notes that say 'hey you made a difference.'" The coping technique these scientists have in common is doing something to help. The word they often use is “agency.” It's especially true for climate researchers — tarred as doomsayers by political types who reject the science.
Northern Illinois University meteorology professor Victor Gensini said that, at 35, he figures it's his relative youth that gives him hope. Deke Arndt, chief of climate science and services at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Center for Environmental Information, said what buoys him with an overwhelming optimism is his personal faith, and remembering all the people who have helped his family over the generations — through the Dust Bowl for his grandparents and through infertility and then neonatal issues for his son.
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