All Entries Tagged With: "Earth System Management"
The power of forecasting
by Jacob Arfwedson
In the 1930s, Franklin Roosevelt asked his administration to undertake a vast exploratory study of future technologies. A group of researchers eventually produced a voluminous report with fascinating insights. There was only one little glitch: the document did not foresee television, plastics, jet planes, organ transplants, laser technology, or even ballpoint pens.
As Ludwig [...]
Climate Change: There is no Alternative to Adaptation
By Edgar L. Gärtner (Frankfurt)
German Geologists Call Two Centigrade Target for Global Warming Bare Nonsense
Six weeks before the beginning of the Copenhagen summit the big German business newspaper „Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” published an interview with three leading geoscientist (Karin Lochte, Volker Mosbrugger and Reinhard Hüttl) who call UNFCCC’s official target of mitigating global warming at [...]
