I don't believe we can manage climate change. We can, however, manage our technology and interactions with the environment in ways that will have less of an impact on climate change. Climate, of course, is always changing. During the Holocene, humans have become much more of a force of "nature" and have had a greater influence on changes in the environment and climate than ever before. How to measure and evaluate that influence is a complex matter because the dynamics of environmental and climatic systems are very complex.
I don't believe we can manage climate change. We can, however, manage our technology and interactions with the environment in ways that will have less of an impact on climate change. Climate, of course, is always changing. During the Holocene, humans have become much more of a force of "nature" and have had a greater influence on changes in the environment and climate than ever before. How to measure and evaluate that influence is a complex matter because the dynamics of environmental and climatic systems are very complex.
What I indicate is easy to write but difficult to realise: radical change of way of life with change of the main paradigm (the first is the business). Both of them seem to be impossible.
Geoengineering could be the mankind answer as a last chance. I imagine huge power plants to flood deserts with sea water and enhance the evaporation to influence the rain distribution. Or pumping of ocean bottom water at the surface to drop the athmosphere temperature or change the pattern of the Circum Antartctic Current by means of giant dams in the Southern Oceans. But the technical feasibility would not imply the POLITICAL FEASIBILITY...Business will go on as usually in Phanerozoic: the most adapted to changing environment will survive in new niches.
You must also consider the potential negative consequences of geo-engineering. For example, the creation of dams or open water reservoirs in some regions to conserve water for drought periods has created new breeding grounds for parasite-carrying mosquitos. This has led to increases in mosquito-borne diseases in many areas.
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I do not believe we can know or in the foreseeable future. Science is doing its best to "crack mother natures code" bit in the mean time I believe all sciences must do a better job of communicating to the general audience that global warming is real.
There is definitely awareness of climate change which did not exist some decades ago. It has become invisible necessity which is becoming visible slowly slowly, like species disappearance, weather changes globally.
Developed countries are now persuasive for this cause. In fact developed countries over a couple of centuries has polluted the world most and became developed. During their development, millions gave their life in mines, by working under hazardous conditions. Now developed countries are big preacher of environmental change and want to push their ideas on underdeveloped countries that wants to develop. In fact, more a country want to develop, more bad environment it will create by their industrialization and dumping remnants and waste material of industries and smoke and CO and Co2 in air.
I agree it is still a good idea, does not matter which country we talk, each one at personal level and at municipal level and country level keep pushing to keep environment safe, pesticide-free, and sea water free from industrial contaminants, air free from dangerous gases.
Awareness is important, but the knowledge of the real origin of climatic changes is essential. I do not believe that co2 increase in atmosphere can induce induce global warming: at most it is responsible of the enhanced dynamic of the athmosphere. What really matters is the ocean enthalpy and only the energy received by the sun can control this parameter . What we are witnessing is a natural climate change coupled to a global attempt to address the problem of sustenibility of a growing mankind that relies of foxil resources in terms of climate changes instead of control of available resources in a finite world.