So even as humanity is in the midst of conducting the
vast «geophysical
experiment» of rapidly altering the
global greenhouse, a growing array of people — scientists, communicators and campaigners in their various realms — are also
experimenting with new ways to consider and respond to this problem (or issue, in the parlance of the White House).
While
vast global coal reserves make this question more neutral with regard to carbon per se, it a more complete socio - politico - economic
experiment nonetheless to examine how good we have been at steering the oceanliner of energy policy with regard to foreign oil in the United States, obviously a more simple problem than all fossil fuels together.