My piece in the WSJ today on the importance of climate adaptation 
My discussion of Mike Hulme’s “climate reductionism” didn’t survive the edit, but it is a really important piece for understanding the incredible flattening of knowledge on climate
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“In this new mood of climate-driven destiny the human hand, as the cause of climate change, has replaced the divine hand of God as being responsible for the collapse of civilizations, for visitations of extreme weather & for determining the new 21st-century wealth of nations”
This NYT subhead reminds me of Sarewitz:
“with climate change being blamed for almost everything these days, the one phenomenon that seems to have escaped the notice of scientists, environmentalists & the media alike is that, perhaps above all, climate change is making us stupid”
“with climate change being blamed for almost everything these days, the one phenomenon that seems to have escaped the notice of scientists, environmentalists & the media alike is that, perhaps above all, climate change is making us stupid”
Our monomaniacal focus on climate change as the cause of all bad things is reinforced by a strange combination of viewing today’s news through fantasy worlds of 2100 with the immediacy of social media, which brings every disaster viscerally to your screen
https://twitter.com/rogerpielkejr/status/1415054635111358466
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