In addition, the committee believes that these approaches are more accurately described as «climate intervention» strategies — purposeful actions intended to curb the negative impacts of climate
change — rather than
engineering strategies that imply
precise control over the climate.
Gavin disparaged my role in the matter, again attributing the
precise diagnosis to NASA (though it was me who had spotted the
change in data sets) and denying that I had had to do «reverse
engineering» to figure out the problem — even though that was precisely what I had had to do (in the form of patient comparison of multiple versions of different data sets):