Reading recommendation for Spock and TMITSSS
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 4:39 pm
And anyone else who is interested in the non-political aspects of climate change. My most recent issue of Physics Today has an article about Paul Higgins, who is the director of the American Meteorological Society's Policy division. It's a digest of a larger writing of his called Climate Change Risk Management, which I have not read yet, but intend to. His idea is that we need to get away from the political noise that has surrounded the issue, and focus on a risk management approach. If I'm not mistaken, Spock recently said something like this in this forum, and it's an approach even climate skeptics could get behind, I think. It might get us away from arguing the subtleties of modeling and forecasting with small baseline data, and into arguing about cost/benefit analysis. We'd still be arguing, but I think it's an immensely more productive argument to have.
If anyone else is interested enough to track down any of Higgins's recent writing on this subject, I'd be interested to hear your take. I am not interested in yet more overheated rehashings of the current talking points on both sides of the aisle.
If anyone else is interested enough to track down any of Higgins's recent writing on this subject, I'd be interested to hear your take. I am not interested in yet more overheated rehashings of the current talking points on both sides of the aisle.