Testimony to Congress
may be a pinnacle for communication with lawmakers and the public, but
Congress is hardly a citadel of wisdom. A witness has a hard time
competing with preconceived opinions affected by political and special
interest considerations.
That is why the public itself must understand the climate situation.
When a Congressperson says that we have six years, seven months and
three days (or some such number) to solve the climate matter, it is time
to keep a very tight grip on your wallet.
We need to flatten and bend the curves, a task that is limited by
nature, with nature’s important time scales being mainly decades and
centuries. Those time lags have been our bete noire (just as the 1-3
week lag has been for dealing with Covid-19), but if we understand the
lags well, we can make effective use of them to avoid disastrous
outcomes.
Sorry that I am slow in finishing this book, but I will finish it this
year – it is important to be careful with fact checking. Here, for that
purpose, are Chapters 21 & 22.
http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/SophiePlanet/Planet.Chapters21+22.pdf
Side comment: those people favoring a specific carbon-free energy who
focus on criticizing other carbon-free energies are enemies of young
people and nature. I try to help young people understand the situation
in coming chapters.
I opened a Twitter account @DrJamesEHansen, (https://twitter.com/drjamesehansen), but I am focusing mainly on finishing the book.
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