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Obama era expert "debunks" climate doomers + Kolbert talks California climate change - C C - May 15, 2021 An Obama era scientist debunks the climate doom-mongers (climate community) https://www.aei.org/op-eds/an-obama-scientist-debunks-the-climate-doom-mongers/ EXCERPT:
Elizabeth Kolbert talks California climate change and ‘Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future’ (climate community) https://www.pe.com/2021/05/15/elizabeth-kolbert-talks-california-climate-change-and-under-a-white-sky-the-nature-of-the-future/ EXCERPT: . . . Her most recent book, “Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future,” is a sequel of sorts to “The Sixth Extinction.” It is, as she writes, “a book about people trying to solve problems created by people trying to solve problems.” In it, Kolbert travels extensively, exploring rivers, desert pools and coral reefs while getting to know some of the people looking for solutions to the world’s climate change and biodiversity crises. This points to something that has changed since Kolbert’s early days of covering climate change. Back in the early 2000s, she spent a good amount of time reporting from the Arctic and she edited a book of writing on it. “It was always predicted that the Arctic would see the effects of climate change first and most dramatically. That has turned out to be true,” she says. However, the impact of climate change has spread further since then. “Now, I could go anywhere — that’s certainly true of California — and I would find very robust data that would show me how climate change is impacting the world right now.” It’s not exactly the change people would want to see. That, Kolbert says, is perhaps one of the lesser-known stories of the past decade-and-a-half. “A lot of these impacts that were predicted for some time in the future, they’re coming faster and more dramatically, as a general rule, than climate scientists would have predicted 15 years ago,” she says. [...] “I want people to be impressed by the severity of the problem and the scale of the problem, but it’s not really a viable option to give up and crawl under the bed,” says Kolbert. “So, I really do admire all of these people who are in the book, once again, trying their best.” And, when it comes to tackling these human-made problems, all humans can do is try to alleviate them. “Whether it will work or not, we don’t know. They don’t know. That’s sort of part of the conditions right now,” says Kolbert. “We don’t even know whether it’s going to work or not, but we kind of have to try.” (MORE - details) |