Certain And Confident: Predicting The Future In A Climate-Changing World
The Climate Science Special Report, released by the White House last week, is a valuable read — it's a primer on how science works when it overlaps with the need to make informed bets on our future.
This last week brought big news in the struggle over climate change and climate science.
First, there was the announcement that Syria was signing on to the Paris Agreement, making the U.S. the only nation on the entire planet to reject it. Even more important, however, was the publication, released by the White House, of the Climate Science Special Report (CSSR). Coming in at a whopping 470 pages, the report was prepared by the nation's top Earth scientists and its message was pretty blunt.
Science is certain that the climate is changing and it is confident that human activity is the cause.
I am going to leave you to figure out how the administration can square its denial of climate change science with
