Which lead to these articles www.theguardian.com/environment/... www.theguardian.com/environment/... www.theguardian.com/environment/... Despite their best efforts, The Guardian climate desk still relies on articles from the science publishing industry, which they've shown to be corrupted.
But they, and we, have no choice unless we have the billions needed to do our own research or SCIENTISTS ABANDON existing publishing and go independent, which they cannot do because these articles are critical to their grant approvals.
This was followed by many other articles including www.theguardian.com/environment/... www.theguardian.com/environment/... and www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How did our OroAzul project team find ourselves in the middle of this controversy? Since about 1972, I was 12, my reading showed three really scary things. Those nasty animal studies in the 1950s proving when you pack too many animals into too small a space they start killing each other.
World population was likely to hit 25B by 2,000. (Didn't happen) The Mariner probe to Venus proving that green house gas "warming" made Venus so hot lead is naturally molten on the surface. At that point I dedicated my career to learning as much engineering as I could to prevent these.
I guess being the child of the chair of the sociology department, associate dean of students and stepson of the college VP had some benefits, because I was able to complete my MS from what became the Georgia Tech Aerospace Systems Design Lab and helped found [Howard] Hughes Skunk Works.
Hughes Skunk Works (posthumously named after Howard Hughes Jr) is similar to Lockheed Skunk Works, only so secret I wasn't aware it existed or I'd helped found it until 30 years after I left McDonnell Douglas. It never officially existed and is now part of Boeing Phantom Works.
On one occasion our work shamed Lockheed so badly, that the US defense department accused us of falsifying the entire project results because they were physically impossible. The VP of LSW came, saw the device covered in dirt from a mission and wrote "it does what they say it does."
Part of my training was national defense, crisis response which combined with my liberal social justice upbringing allowed me to write the 21st Century Civil Resistance Manual. Another part was preventing Catastrophic Cascade Failures darkskyinnovation.com/articles/cli... or "tipping points."
I refuse to water to down the danger we all face from #climate collapse by using the euphemism "tipping point," and use more correct terms such as singularity, bifurcation and Catastrophic Cascade Failure. Cascade failures cause history's greatest disasters from the Titanic to the Hindenburg.
But even the reporters and editors at the Guardian have been misled by "ignore the man behind the curtain" because EVERY ONE of these articles is focused on raising the alarm that the threat is real while not investigating - IS THE SCIENCE BEHIND OUR SOLUTIONS VALID? It is NOT.
What I'm waiting for is a few years of increased volcanic activity to push CO2 levels forward a century.