Technology's Role In a Climate Solution (thebulletin.org)

Lasrick writes: If the world is to avoid severe, widespread, and irreversible impacts (PDF), carbon emissions must decrease quickly. Achieving such cuts, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, depends in part on the availability of "key technologies." But arguments abound against faith in technological solutions to the climate problem. Electricity grids may be ill equipped to accommodate renewable energy produced on a massive scale. Many technological innovations touted in the past have failed to achieve practical success. Even successful technologies will do little good if they mature too late to help avert climate disaster. In this debate in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, experts from India, the United States, and Bangladesh address the following questions: To what extent can the world depend on technological innovation to address climate change? And what promising technologies—in generating, storing, and saving energy, and in storing greenhouse gases or removing them from the atmosphere—show most potential to help the world come to terms with global warming?

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Re:Use Super Computer to Remove the "adjustments"

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes adjustments lowered temperatures, but adjustments were made predominently to earlier data, the result being it causeed the trend line to increase.

This argument is so bad it is embarrassing, looking at a histogram of changes without paying attention to where on the timeline the adjustments occur and what impact those adjustments actually have? And people wring their hands that not everyone is drinking the kool-aid.