Kim Stanley Robinson On Google and Climate Change

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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[semsima]

I really loved it

[moomar1]

What a load of dogs bollocks... the degree by which EXTRA co2 causes warming DECREASES the high the concerntration of c02 becomes, going from 450 ppm to 560 ppm won't do shit, calm the fuck down and stick to writing novels you alarmist kook, this is chicken little all over again

[moomar1]

@s3ntient93 In a debate about global warming why are you trying to score points picking on peoples spelling?, you're grasping mate. people only pick on spelling when they get desperate

[s3ntient93]

@juggernautxtr lol, funny! unfortunately you've already tipped your hand with all your comments, so all I can say is: come back once you're educated.

[juggernautxtr]

gee look at you, thinking your all that and the cake too.

kiss my ass when it comes down to reality, i'd put you to shame in brains.

[s3ntient93]

@juggernautxtr sorry I have no time for dumb as bricks internet trolls

[juggernautxtr]

@s3ntient93

just another moron worried more about bullshit than the realities

[s3ntient93]

if you are going to participate in a discussion requiring a modicum of intelligence and knowledge, don't make yourself look like a fool absolutely poor spelling and grammar. I'm not even going to comment on the substance of your post, since it's even more baffling.

[juggernautxtr]

like i said above.

the bigger the lie the easier it is to believe.

[ReduceGHGs]

Yea, cheney and bush are experts, right? Well, they were experts at catering to their energy sponsors.

Find ONE respected scientific institution that sees it your way and I'd love to have the link. Otherwise, consider why ALL of them understand that a human-caused climate crisis is occurring.

What was the last book you read about this or a related issue?