The Brains Trust - 2024, page-1873

Dave Im not sure what motivated that post; maybe just trying to stir me up a bit? It worked!

Quick google:

"The Climate Study Group is an unincorporated group of seven Australian conservative men that was formed in 2009 under the name “Fair Farming Group. The Climate Study group is known for taking out a series of advertisements in The Australian newspaper,.....Investigations by DeSmog have found the group’s members have links to mining, finance, agriculture and free market “think tank” the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA).
None of the members of the Climate Study Group appear to have any qualifications in climate science or any record of publishing peer-reviewed research on climate change."

I will continue to take my advice from the worlds leading climate scientists thanks.

& just in case anyone likes to read any of the rubbish in the add and quote the "facts". Simple fact: the climate has changed radically through the last few million years. Its been a lot hotter and a lot colder. Mankind has "flourished" in an incredibly small time frame of about 12,000 years where the earths systems have by coincidence been favourable.

The current dilemma facing the Planet and thereby threatening the future of the human race is the UNDISPUTED (IMO) FACT that mankind is making unseen rates of change to the atmosphere and therfore the climate. It is having probably irreversible impacts on temperature, biodiversity, hydrology, and land systems. There is an incredibly high chance that life as we j=know it will be unrecognisable by the end of this century. Probably earlier.

In my day job I have had the good fortune to hang out with a lot of "smartest people in the room". It menas I am considered to know "a little about a lot" (expert in nothing! LOL) In case anyone has an interest I have embarked on what was originally going to be a book but I am hoping to produce as a series of essays. See the very draft Table of Contents below. Happy for any thoughts or questions.

A Littleabout a Lot”

A Collectionof essays 5,000 -15,000 words

Chapters

Index

Table of Contents

1. Overshoot-and-its-7-fundamental-drivers- PAGEREF _Toc174433018 \h 208D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003100370034003400330033003000310038000000

a. The earth. PAGEREF _Toc174433019 \h 208D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003100370034003400330033003000310039000000

b. Chlorofluorocarbons success. PAGEREF _Toc174433020 \h 608D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003100370034003400330033003000320030000000

c. Tipping points in the climate system.. PAGEREF _Toc174433021 \h 608D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003100370034003400330033003000320031000000

2. Climate Change. PAGEREF _Toc174433022 \h 608D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003100370034003400330033003000320032000000

a. Carbon: noble villain. PAGEREF _Toc174433023 \h 608D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003100370034003400330033003000320033000000

b. Paris Agreement and COP 28. PAGEREF _Toc174433024 \h 808D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003100370034003400330033003000320034000000

c. United States withdrawal and readmittance[edit] PAGEREF _Toc174433025 \h 808D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003100370034003400330033003000320035000000

d. Global stocktake wiki PAGEREF _Toc174433026 \h 908D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003100370034003400330033003000320036000000

3. Energy. PAGEREF _Toc174433027 \h 1108D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003100370034003400330033003000320037000000

a. Renewable Energy and Demand Management. PAGEREF _Toc174433028 \h 1108D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003100370034003400330033003000320038000000

b. Storage. PAGEREF _Toc174433029 \h 1108D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003100370034003400330033003000320039000000

c. True cost of energy. PAGEREF _Toc174433030 \h 1108D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003100370034003400330033003000330030000000

d. Renewable energy: PAGEREF _Toc174433031 \h 1208D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003100370034003400330033003000330031000000

e. Nuclear (see link to Nuclear Power Ch 3??) PAGEREF _Toc174433032 \h 1308D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003100370034003400330033003000330032000000

4. Nuclear power PAGEREF _Toc174433033 \h 1508D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003100370034003400330033003000330033000000

a. Current status. PAGEREF _Toc174433034 \h 1508D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003100370034003400330033003000330034000000

b. What is the role of the IAEA?. PAGEREF _Toc174433035 \h 1608D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003100370034003400330033003000330035000000

5. Waste. PAGEREF _Toc174433036 \h 1708D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003100370034003400330033003000330036000000

a. Plastics. PAGEREF _Toc174433037 \h 1708D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003100370034003400330033003000330037000000

b. PAGEREF _Toc174433038 \h 1708D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003100370034003400330033003000330038000000

6. Economics, Endless Growth & Debt PAGEREF _Toc174433039 \h 1708D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003100370034003400330033003000330039000000

a. How did we get here?. PAGEREF _Toc174433040 \h 1708D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003100370034003400330033003000340030000000

b. Humanity and wellbeing versus Economics. PAGEREF _Toc174433041 \h 1708D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003100370034003400330033003000340031000000

7. The role of trees and forests. PAGEREF _Toc174433042 \h 1808D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003100370034003400330033003000340032000000

a. Biomass. PAGEREF _Toc174433043 \h 1808D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003100370034003400330033003000340033000000

b. Biochar PAGEREF _Toc174433044 \h 1908D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003100370034003400330033003000340034000000

8. Biodiversity. PAGEREF _Toc174433045 \h 2008D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003100370034003400330033003000340035000000

9. Insects

. PAGEREF _Toc174433046 \h 2008D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003100370034003400330033003000340036000000

10. Project Cost overruns. PAGEREF _Toc174433047 \h 2408D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003100370034003400330033003000340037000000

11. Global supply chains. PAGEREF _Toc174433048 \h 2508D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003100370034003400330033003000340038000000

12. Artificial Intelligence. PAGEREF _Toc174433049 \h 2508D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003100370034003400330033003000340039000000

a. What is AI?. PAGEREF _Toc174433050 \h 2508D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003100370034003400330033003000350030000000

b. Dangers and pitfalls of AI PAGEREF _Toc174433051 \h 2508D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003100370034003400330033003000350031000000

c. AI and the Environment PAGEREF _Toc174433052 \h 3108D0C9EA79F9BACE118C8200AA004BA90B02000000080000000E0000005F0054006F0063003100370034003400330033003000350032000000