The most important thing we can do against climate change is start working heavily on #GeoEngineering
Yet I don't see anyone talking about that.
It's a massive mistake; emissions reductions won't bite for another half-century or more, but #GeoEngineering works right now.
It's not postmodern reality denial (although it works far better for climate than anything where it's actually applied) - it's that the very definition of the terms and the mapping of the data to a model is impossibly complex and that complexity has been weaponized 1/3
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Two nearby stations give temperatures that are slightly different - one a few degrees warmer - how do you weight them? Do you adjust for the fact that a strip mall was built and one is now on the edge of a paved parking lot? Etc. These are all answerable questions BUT 2/3
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BUT Every one of those questions is an area that's ripe for "manipulating procedural outcomes" and the field as a whole has not only no checks on that; it has incentives to *use* it to get the desired result. The data isn't even checkable because they hide it. 3/3
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