climate change, take 2.
check out this talk by david keith, a professor who studies climate change (simply put). i have never really liked this guy, for a number of different reasons, but i think it is important to hear what he is saying … because really, what he is saying is what many are thinking and believing. namely, that we will be able to think up clever technological fixes to our climate change problem.
what bothers me most about this guy is not his questioning of the current climate change environment, but his cocky assurance about the scope of science’s ability … something which any objective observer would qualify as ‘limited’. for instance, we are great at starting things, or creating events (and causes), but we are horrible when coming to understanding how these fit into the systems that govern our lives.
sure we could maybe cool the atmosphere with particulates in case of emergency … but what will this do subsequently?
oddly, part of his argument is mirrored in this article from nov.14th that shows that china is far out-pacing the world in it’s ‘weather engineering’ initiatives.
… seems like we are getting a good indication of where our governments efforts will go when it comes to dealing with climate change.
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