Kim Stanley Robinson On Google and Climate Change



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Google Tech Talks
December, 11 2007
ABSTRACT
As part of our SciFoo Campers @Google Tech Talk series, acclaimed author Kim Stanley Robinson will share his thoughts on climate change in what promises to be an insightful and provocative hour.
The recent IPCC and UN reports on climate change make it clear that we
face an imminent environmental crisis, and that there is an urgent need
to decarbonize our civilization as rapidly as possible. Robinson will
discuss strategies for accomplishing this, focusing on social
questions, cleaner energy and transport, mission architectures,
possibilities of geo-engineering, and the important role that Google
can have in all these as world leader in information technologies. As
in his novels, Robinson will attempt to synthesize the Big Picture
while also making specific suggestions for action now.
Speaker: Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson is a Californian science fiction writer best
known for his Mars trilogy, Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars. He
has recently published the last volume of his Climate Trilogy, Forty
Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, and Sixty Days and Counting. He is
two-time winner of both the Nebula and the Hugo Awards, and was
selected by the U.S. National Science Foundation to go to Antarctica as
part of its Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, which resulted in
his novel Antarctica, a precursor to his Climate Trilogy. He lives in
Davis, and has enjoyed a couple of previous visits to the Googleplex.


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The climate is ... ( 8 months ago by JonThm)
The climate is controlled by God and the sun. We should get all our power from molecular nuclear fusion, like the deep sea has done for 200 million years, and man started doing with steam power. Or hadn't you noticed? Yuo do it every time your heart beats.
Nope. Mike ... ( 7 months ago by sandread)
Nope. Mike Lockwood from the UK's Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory and Henrik Svensmark and Eigil Friis-Christensen of the Danish National Space Center both have different studies showing the sun has very little correlation to warming temps. Find some new reason to deny the mounting evidence.
Welcome to the next ... ( 7 months ago by JonThm)
Welcome to the next ice age. 'Global Warming' was just PR from nuclear power, dressed up as sceicne by the IPCC who are so not sceintists!
If that's the case, ... ( 7 months ago by sandread)
If that's the case, then the people who denounce global warming aren't scientists either. Both groups have a mix of scientist and non scientists, except global warming skeptics are often, factually, paid off by oil companies whereas this is just a fantasy in your mind.
Prof Zimmerman, my ... ( 7 months ago by JonThm)
Prof Zimmerman, my old PhD suipervisor, has had articles published on globla warming. After my PhD, he no longer believes in it! There si onyl 0.00037% CO2 in the air, 2000 times less than required to have an effect. Get educated: It opens the mind up to thinking, rahter than reciting nuclear power PR!
I have a masters in ... ( 7 months ago by sandread)
I have a masters in earth and planetary science and a BS in astronomy. I've worked at NASA Goddard with climate models and climate scientist as well as my own work. I think I know something of the "debate" and you are spouting nonsense. Nothing is made up. What's the first name of this professor? What university? I have serious doubts about the existence of this person based on your lack of answers to simple questions before.
Good: Then you will ... ( 7 months ago by JonThm)
Good: Then you will know there is only 0.00037% CO2 in the air - which is pegged by plant life! In the Jurassic ferns pegged CO2 at 0.0004%, there was 60% more life on Earth, and sea levels were 675 meters lower. CO2 levels onyl rise in an ice age! GW was just nuclear power PR!
prof Zimmerman can ... ( 6 months ago by JonThm)
prof Zimmerman can tel lyou how to do nuclear fusion: Power with no CO2.
i am on the right ... ( 6 months ago by Markus2976)
i am on the right place here i think there are some rumors about a poleshifting in 2012 what you say about it? send me msg pls
Plants take in the ... ( 5 months ago by JonThm)
Plants take in the 0.00037% max CO2 in the globla air, to support all life on Earth: More CO2, more life. Amd lower seas.
You can't spell ... ( 5 months ago by jackjen1)
You can't spell scientist. Take a look at Greenland, and note the accelerating rate of melt.
Right now fusion ... ( 5 months ago by jackjen1)
Right now fusion doesn't produce more energy out than is put in. Maybe somebody here could learn about it and join in, and North American funding of fusion is paltry.
The percentage ... ( 5 months ago by jackjen1)
The percentage taken in is dependent on the mass of plants available, and that mass has been reduced, 70% of the worlds forests have been cut down, and the deserts are growing slowly. The oceans are rising, that is measurable and reproducible and has been well documented. Stop spreading lies.
ACCORDING TO THE ... ( 4 months ago by SirVertual)
ACCORDING TO THE ICE CORE RECORDS, CO2 LEVELS HAVE NEVER GONE OVER 300PPM...WITHIN THE LAST FEW DECADES THEY HAVE GROWN TO 383PPM...!GET THAT? !!ALMOST 1/3 HIGHER IN A FEW DECADES AFTER 1 MILLION YEARS OF MINIMAL NATURAL CHANGES!!!
Take a look at 'any image of earth' (from space) that thin 'film membrane' happens to be 'OUR ATMOSPHERE'...'Pollution ain't perty'...and it can't cause extinction, but at least this ol' world would get rid of these pesky (& filthy, greedy) human 'fleas'...
According to New ... ( 3 months ago by JonThm)
According to New Sceintist, CO2 is at 3.7 parrts per million: And since 2005 th world ahs been cooling. The ice age is next!
There are no ... ( 3 months ago by JonThm)
There are no academic members of teh IPCC anymore. It is there to do nuclear PR.
the audio quality ... ( 2 months ago by phrikety)
the audio quality in this video is absolutely horribly google needs to stop mangling sound, it absolutely disgusting
There is only ... ( 2 months ago by JonThm)
There is only 0.00037% CO2 in the globla air: But nuclear power wants new plants of death. But the wordl has been cooling since 2005.
If you plot the ... ( 1 month ago by sydneydoc)
If you plot the past 7 years, you will see a clear cooling trend ... and of course no temp increase since 1998 ... despite what the models forecast for this period !!
Why doesn't the IPCC 2007 report show temps for the past decade ?? (Anyone who claims that it does should quote a reference page number !)
According to New ... ( 1 month ago by JonThm)
According to New Scientist, the world is cooling: Explain.
It makes sense to ... ( 1 month ago by mistahchillah)
It makes sense to re-examine what a digital democracy would look like. The wisdom of the people is only as wise as the technology used to gather that wisdom. Companies like Google who power over knowledge at the global scale have the responsibility to efficiently organize collective knowledge to where it can be redily utilized.
'Climate change' is ... ( 1 month ago by JonThm)
'Climate change' is fatal ficiton from nuclear power: You are their stooge.
A tax theory which ... ( 3 weeks ago by DIGIBOYTV)
A tax theory which is unproven, moisture is far more a contributor than Co2 which plants absorb. Canadians also discovered clouds with snow falling via LIDAR so are cars warming Mars? and melting the remaining surface ice as seen since '96? Proof before stiffling 3rd world progress which we have already benefitted from. Where is the North pole ice on Google Maps Google? LOL!
Ice at the South ... ( 3 weeks ago by JonThm)
Ice at the South Pole increased by 30% this year, as the world cooled fro tthe thrid year running. Nuclear power smashed their way through the Northern passage using an ice breaker. They always could of, this is not evidence of warming!
More plants grow in the warm, and they take in CO2, so more CO2 = more life.




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