I’ll be posting a few more clips from my recent chat with John Abraham. John and I go back a while, but what he’s doing now ranges widely between tracking ocean temperatures as part of a globally significant “A” team, working on energy technologies, and AI.
2 thoughts on “John Abraham PhD on Adapting to Extreme Weather”
We will have to adapt to survive, no getting around that
My concerns are that “adaptation” has become a COOPT28 talking point, a buzzword, greenlighting the very clear position that we should just keep doing what we’re doing while depending on industry and technology to bail us somewhere down the line; that adaptation is keep doing what we’re doing and learn to live with the mess
At how many parts per million does O2 deprivation, CO2 poisoning, kick in … ?
I’m not worried about the breathability of the atmosphere. We’ll be plenty busy dealing with more damage to crops, coastal cities and farmland, forced migrations and other challenges. We’re already committed to more at present levels of CO2, which of course continue to increase. Extreme events will get worse, harming especially the poor and vulnerable, who will have to retreat from coastlines in low-lying regions, losing their land and their livelihoods. “Feedback” responses are already melting permafrost in the north and causing unprecedented forest fires, producing still more CO2 and methane… If and when we finally find ourselves facing a ‘can we breathe’ future we’ll have gone through a few circles of hell already.
We will have to adapt to survive, no getting around that
My concerns are that “adaptation” has become a COOPT28 talking point, a buzzword, greenlighting the very clear position that we should just keep doing what we’re doing while depending on industry and technology to bail us somewhere down the line; that adaptation is keep doing what we’re doing and learn to live with the mess
At how many parts per million does O2 deprivation, CO2 poisoning, kick in … ?
I’m not worried about the breathability of the atmosphere. We’ll be plenty busy dealing with more damage to crops, coastal cities and farmland, forced migrations and other challenges. We’re already committed to more at present levels of CO2, which of course continue to increase. Extreme events will get worse, harming especially the poor and vulnerable, who will have to retreat from coastlines in low-lying regions, losing their land and their livelihoods. “Feedback” responses are already melting permafrost in the north and causing unprecedented forest fires, producing still more CO2 and methane… If and when we finally find ourselves facing a ‘can we breathe’ future we’ll have gone through a few circles of hell already.