All signs point toward a future affected by climate change. From higher temperatures to droughts and more extreme weather, experts are searching for ways to sustain our growing population, as well as our planet. Some analysts say machine learning and artificial intelligence offer promising strategies to respond to the effects of climate change. AI can work faster than a human being, can forecast further into the future, has a low error rate and has 24/7 availability. This allows it to better predict extreme weather, flooding, natural disasters and other destruction linked to climate change.

If the human race has any hope of meeting the challenge of climate change, it will need to think its way out of the conundrum it has wrought. People need meaningful work to do. Business owners need profits to stay in business. Commerce takes energy -- lots of it -- to keep chugging ahead. But work and commerce generate effluent that poisons the land, the air, and the seas.

If the human race has any hope of meeting the challenge of climate change, it will need to think its way out of the conundrum it has wrought. People need meaningful work to do. Business owners need profits to stay in business. Commerce takes energy -- lots of it -- to keep chugging ahead. But work and commerce generate effluent that poisons the land, the air, and the seas.