LOL Another retard that flaps yap without checking on reality;
"The National Academy of Engineering will hold its
annual meeting Oct. 2-4, with the theme of Engineering Responses to Climate Change. NAE President John Anderson sat down to talk about the contributions engineers — and NAE in particular — can make to mitigating and adapting to climate change.
Q: As you watch the types of extremes that are likely to increase as the climate changes — intense heat waves, for example, and electricity outages from hurricanes — how do you think about that? How worried are you?
Anderson: I’m a parent of two and have five grandchildren, and I’m worried about the future. As a scientist and as an engineer, I’m convinced — and have been for a number of years — that emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases have caused problems; the correlation between the CO2 composition of the atmosphere and what we’re seeing is just too strong, and there are compelling scientific explanations for why CO2 increases the mean temperature of the Earth.
We’ve all enjoyed improvement of quality of life and other benefits from burning fossil fuels, though. The question is what do we do about it? I think from an engineering point of view, we have to both mitigate climate change — reduce the rate of global temperature rise — and adapt to it.
Adaptation is going to be just as important, if not more important, than mitigation. Even if we put no more CO2 in the atmosphere now, we are still going to have problems. Human beings have been adapting over millennia, and we can do it better than our ancestors. I think the real issue is political will. There are engineering changes that can be made — for example, building houses that are more resilient to wind and rain — but the issue is political will."
How can engineers help the nation mitigate and adapt to climate change? In advance of the National Academy of Engineering’s annual meeting — which will explore that question — NAE President John L. Anderson sat down to discuss the contributions engineering can make.
www.nationalacademies.org