‘No one wants to be right about this’: climate scientists’ horror and exasperation as global predictions play out

As the northern hemisphere burns, experts feel deep sadness - and resentment - while dreading what lies ahead this Australian summer

Guardian Australia asked seven leading climate scientists to describe how they felt as much of the northern hemisphere is engulfed by blistering heatwaves, and a number of global land and ocean climate records are broken.

Dr Joelle Gergis, senior lecturer in climate science Fenner School of Environment and Society, associate investigator ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes at the Australian National University