Well, for one thing, it's as far back as
this particular kind of climate measurement can be extended.
Not exact matches
He has not really addressed the fact that the notion
of climate, as distinct from the notion
of weather, is not concerned with
particular features
of a single trajectory or history, but with the fact that there are some general features about certain
kinds of time and system averages over many trajectories - and that these average features tend to show certain
kinds of regularity or slow secular variation that are not apparent in a single trajectory (the term secular here has a technical meaning, not the common one
of «not religious»).
So the title Fast Forward came in part from an article I read on Keith Haring, that was talking about the
climate, this moment, in the early 1980s in
particular and more generally, and that there was this idea that there was suddenly a
kind of new freedom for artists to paint what you want.
For months, the stasist blogosphere has been aflame with «Gates
of various
kinds — attempts to spin one or two errors or overstatements on
particular issues, along with various comments in the East Anglia e-mail messages, into the unraveling
of the many lines
of science pointing to a rising, and risky, human influence on the
climate system.
So those
kinds of factors are very, very deep in American politics and so much
of America's, and in
particular Washington, D.C.; the federal government's response to
climate change has been shaped by that.
Climate activists in the US and Canada haven't been able to muster the
kinds of numbers seen at marches in Europe and Australia (in
particular), nor is there the celebrity impact
of, say, Radiohead's Thom Yorke DJ - ing for the crowd, as happened in London earlier.
This
kind of «best approach to
particular problem» has a long history in policy analysis, and since
climate scientists do it all the time why shouldn't they just recognise it other disciplines?
Secondly, focussing on delivering turnkey hybrid power solutions, which is
of immense requirement in remote power installations such as island nations, most
of which either can not afford the
kind of diesel or fuel import costs that exist at this
particular stage, or have mandates to move away from heavy carbon footprint in order to meet
climate change goals.
While other scientists differ on pinpointing
particular numbers and limits, many who study
climate change agree that some
kind of action is needed.
Certain
kinds of effects follow from
particular manifestations
of climate change, wherever those phenomena occur.
I think it is high time we demand the same
kind of software verification and validation for
climate models in
particular that we demand for codes used in, say, the nuclear industry.