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What can you do with a
Climate Science degree?

Climate Science is modest-paying, AI barely touches it, and you would have escape routes.

Where this major actually leads

4 careers it opens — bar color = AI risk, tag = how hard the path is.
Natural Sciences Managerscommon
AI risk 6 → 57 future · +3.7% demand
$120,380
Atmospheric, Earth, Marine, and Space Sciences Teachers, Postsecondarystretch
AI risk 4 → 48 future · +2.6% demand
$87,900
Atmospheric and Space Scientistsstretch
AI risk 4 → 57 future · +0.7% demand
$85,322
Geographersstretch
AI risk 11 → 50 future · -3.1% demand
$68,914
● green = AI-safe · red = AI-exposed · click any career for the full breakdown
How this is built. We take every career this major leads to (CIP→SOC official crosswalk), then join each one's real salary (BLS/DOL), AI exposure (O*NET + model), demand growth, and skill-based escape routes. ROI from College Scorecard. Every figure here is joined from official sources, not estimated.