Canwemovefromunintendedglobalwarmingtoclimatebydesign?

(inanoverheated,fast-forwardcommunicationclimate)

Allofhistory:climate>humansNow: climate<>humans

ThisisnotaclimateissueAhostoffieldsaretryingtogetaheadofinevitablepublicdebates.

Manyfailed… GMOs.Fracking… Nuclear… (PEW:nuclearfearsarerisingalongwithclimateconcerns)

Highdwellingsarethepeaceandharmonyofourdescendants….Rememberthecalamityofthegreattsunamis.Donotbuildanyhomes

belowthispoint.

1985 1988

Oldmediaenvironment:afewauthorities(Cronkite- “That’sthewayitis..”)Comfortfoodforall.

Newmediaenvironment:self-assembledfilterbubblesNowaudiencehastoseekreality.Thatmeansithastowantreality.

Today’swords…

engineering…management…design….intervention…control…

Wordsmatter…(Iusedtohatethenotionof“framing”)

Alka Seltzerfortheseas…..SolarRadiationManagement…

Regenerativefarming…Energymiracles

• Ener

j.mp/dotgates

“Management”…

MatthewFontaineMaury,~1855:“[T]otheright-mindedmariner,andtohimwhostudiesthephysicalrelationsofearth,sea,andair,theatmosphereissomethingmorethanashorelessocean,atthebottomofwhichhecreepsalong....Itisaninexhaustiblemagazine,marvellously adaptedformanybenignandbeneficentpurposes.

“Upontheproperworkingofthismachinedependsthewellbeingofeveryplantandanimalthatinhabitstheearth;thereforethemanagementofit,itsmovements,andtheperformanceofitsoffices,cannotbelefttochance.”

Me,1992:Nowwehavearrivedatatimewhen,voluntarilyorinvoluntarily,humansareindeed"managing"theatmosphere.Wehadbettermanageitwell.

!

j.mp/92warmbook

j.mp/epaheriberto

“Coordinatedmanipulationofatleastsixvariablesisnecessarytomaintainstability

for200yearsorso.”

Welackaculturalnarrativethatsayssustainabilityisreallyimportant.Wehaveaculturalnarrativethatsaysmurderiswrong.Wedon’thaveaculturalnarrativethatsaysmanagingourplanetinawaythatallowsustoliveonitas

longaswecanisprobablythemostimportantthing.

“Coordinatedmanipulationofatleastsixvariablesisnecessarytomaintainstability

for200yearsorso.”

Thereisno“we”…Whosetsthethermostat?

• Whosetsthe

Girdingforaclimatefight?Pickyour

physicsNobelist.• Nobe

Dan Kahan, Yale Law: “What you ‘believe’ about climate change doesn't reflect what you know; it expresses *who you are*

Culturalcognition.net

Engineeringanuncertain,complexsystem:

Adisconnectorcaseforpolicyinnovation?

• ThinkaboutTapio Schneider’suncertaintydiscussionwiththe“fixingthesky”approachorcarbondisposalatscale…

• Howhot,howsoon?KnownUnknowable?

• DavidKeith’s“risktorisk”calculus

SuperWickedProblem

j.mp/superwicked

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Noise

#chemtrails#iamascientistbecause

#manthropocene

#farmhack#deepuncertainty

#birdclass

Signal

#chemtrails#iamascientistbecause

#manthropocene

#farmhack#deepuncertainty

#birdclass

Reach

Acommunicationneed?

IPCC to its authors

Escape from the “Nerd Loop”

RandyOlson@abtagenda

WARMIST!

DENIER!

Beyondtheshoutingmatch

Communicationandtheclassroom

Nature:j.mp/riskschool

Communicationandtheclassroom

Data&Values:“Youcan’tgetanoughtfromanis.”

j.mp/dotvatican

SpencerWeart PaulSlovic HerbSchmertz

GavinFree/SlowMoGuys JohnBrandonMiller