Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Green technologists exploring the possibility the world won’t end in 2030.
It’s Too Late to Undo Climate Change. We Need Tech in Order to Adapt
A raft of companies are developing tech to help us live in a warmer world
On the CES floor in Las Vegas this past January, I saw dozens of companies showing off products designed to help us adapt to climate change. It was an unsettling reminder that we’ve tipped the balance on global warming and that hotter temperatures, wildfires, and floods are the new reality.
Based on our current carbon dioxide emissions, we can expect warming of up to 1.5 °C by 2033. Even if we stopped spewing carbon today, temperatures would continue to rise for a time, and weather would grow still more erratic.
The companies at CES recognize that it’s too late to stop climate change. Faced with that realization, this group of entrepreneurs is focusing on climate adaptation. For them, the goal is to make sure that people and the global economy will still survive across as much of the world as possible. These entrepreneurs’ companies are developing practicalities, such as garments that adapt to the weather or new building materials with higher melting points so that roads won’t crack in extreme temperatures.
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Read more: https://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/portable-devices/its-too-late-to-undo-climate-change-we-need-tech-in-order-to-adapt
I’m completely fine with people spending money on research, so long as it is their own money they are spending. Even if the motivation for the research is absurd, serious basic and applied research efforts usually produce a few useful spinoffs.
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I terminated my IEEE membership 20 years ago when it was clear that they were now a social justice organization.
Ironic!
Yes, we need tech, but human caused climate change is highly exaggerated. First of all, warming in our current, ongoing Ice Age is a good thing. Warming has accompanied periods of prosperity throughout history. Exceptions exist, but they are minor and marginal. And, guess what! We currently live in the Most Prosperous Period in human history — a fact the Warming Alarmists conveniently ignore.
Secondly, increases in CO2 in our epoch of carbon dioxide starvation are vital. So, the Warming Alarmists have created a lie, within a lie to attack the lifeblood of civilization. They truly are the #ProDeathCult!
The technology we need is so that civilization can weather the coming return of Ice Age glacial COLD. All 90,000 years of WINTER! Thankfully, we have hundreds of years (if not thousands) to prepare, but Milankovitch cycles won’t save us from the other forcing factors that have kept interglacial cycles averaging 100,000 years for the last 1.1 million years.
Perhaps the single greatest need from the technology sector is efficient and cheap desalination. Colder climate means far less rain (another fact the Warming Alarmists get backwards). Rain requires evaporation, and evaporation requires warmth.
“On the CES floor in Las Vegas this past January, I saw dozens of companies showing off products designed to help us adapt to climate change. It was an unsettling reminder that we’ve tipped the balance on global warming and that hotter temperatures, wildfires, and floods are the new reality. Based on our current carbon dioxide emissions, we can expect warming of up to 1.5 °C by 2033. Even if we stopped spewing carbon today, temperatures would continue to rise for a time, and weather would grow still more erratic. The companies at CES recognize that it’s too late to stop climate change. Faced with that realization, this group of entrepreneurs is focusing on climate adaptation. For them, the goal is to make sure that people and the global economy will still survive across as much of the world as possible. These entrepreneurs’ companies are developing practicalities, such as garments that adapt to the weather or new building materials with higher melting points so that roads won’t crack in extreme temperatures.”
Maybe a politically correct way to bring up the old mitigation versus adaptation debate that climate science had so forcefully rejected in favor of mitigation saying that adaptation is not an option. It’s an old debate, as old as climate change itself with the adaptation option rejected by climate science, in my view because adaptation does not serve the real motivation for the climate change alarm, that being anti fossil fuel activism. For a history of this debate pls see
Bassett, Thomas J., and Charles Fogelman. “Déjà vu or something new? The adaptation concept in the climate change literature.” Geoforum 48 (2013): 42-53.
YEAH! It’s too late! Now maybe we can all concentrate on actual real problems.
It’s very sad that IEEE could publish such a bunch of pathetic junk science.
“Green technologists exploring the possibility the world won’t end in 2030.”
Eric Worrall heroically fighting strawmen wherever he can make them up.
“It was an unsettling reminder that we’ve tipped the balance on global warming and that hotter temperatures, wildfires, and floods are the new reality.”
How do we know we are going to see “hotter” temperatures? The models all work on AVERAGE temperatures and the average cannot tell you anything about maximum and minimum temperatures!
Once again we see utter idiocy from people that should have learned this is 8th grade math class let alone those with an engineering degree.
From the article: “t was an unsettling reminder that we’ve tipped the balance on global warming and that hotter temperatures, wildfires, and floods are the new reality.”
No, hot temperatures, wildfires, and floods are the old reality. You haven’t been paying attention to history.
Yes. About 4.5 Billion years too late.
We can’t do or undo climate change.
Wild fires and floods have been happening every year since there have been Forrest and it rains.
Nothing new here.
Seems to apply well here….
She’s Come Undone – Guess Who
https://youtu.be/4UoIMwQEgL8
We are doomed, so let’s party!
anybody ever hear of “The Little Boy who Cried Wolf”? “1984” “Chicken Little”, “Farenheit 451”, etc. The warnings have been there for generations but the combination of government funding for science, a greedy agenda by a few who know how to tug the strings of power and a complicit media have led us to this cliff edge. We are virtually at the point where if the madness isn’t stopped it will be all out war for the freedom of future generations – does that sound familiar? It should…