Climate Change Analyst

There are two different ways you can do the job of a Climate Change Analyst. You can go the science-heavy route—collecting measurements and raw data—or you can create new laws and policy.

If you choose to focus on the science side as a Climate Change Analyst, you take collected complex data and make mathematical and scientific models about what will happen in the future. You look at things like atmosphere temperature, melting rate of icebergs, amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and other pertinent information. You analyze raw data to come up with conclusions about how the future will look, and hypothesize different ways people can alter negative climate outcomes. To be able to explain these complex issues, you create things like charts, graphs, or reports that interpret your conclusions.

If you go the policy route, you’re still dealing with science, but not so much in the form of raw data. You take the reports and information found by Climate Change Analysts on the science side of climate change analysis, and present them to the public and the government with the goal of changing the climate’s future. You look over the findings of multiple studies, and then create reports to explain how and why things need to change. From here, you lobby for changes in public policies or laws.

You can spend your days talking with Congress, environmental groups, corporations, or everyday people. Because you deal with such a wide range of personalities, you need to be ale to communicate complex ideas to even the most scientifically uninformed.