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Climate scientists earn ~£30-50k in the UK

They're using a graph neural network. From the article - "The team leveraged Google DeepMind's GraphCast model as an initial foundation and fine-tuned the model using NOAA's own Global Data Assimilation System analyses".

> so what’s AI about this that wasn’t AI previously?

The weather models used today are physics-based numerical models. The machine learning models from DeepMind, ECMWF, Huawei and others are a big shift from the standard, numerical approach used for the last decades.

Yep, "not bad" is very very common here - definitely more so than "decent".