There are a lot of ways to describe what's happening to the Earth's climate: Global warming. Climate change. Climate crisis. Global weirding. They all try to capture in different ways the phenomena caused by our world's weather systems gone awry. Yet despite a thesaurus-entry's worth of options, it's still a remarkably difficult concept to make relatable. Researchers at MIT might finally have an answer, though. Instead of predicting Category 5 hurricanes or record heat days, they've developed a tool that allows people to see how many 'outdoor days' their region might experience from now through 2100 if carbon emissions growth remains unchecked. For people in California or France or Germany, things don't look so bad. The climate won't be quite as hospitable in the summers, but it'll grow a little bit more clement in the spring and fall, adding anywhere from a few days to nearly a month of outdoor weather compared with historical records. The UK will be even better off, gaining 40...
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