Solve it? Why do that when we could ignore it and go away?
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Note: This is an April Fool's Joke.
Ask YC: How will you solve the problem of climate change?
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Re: Ask YC: How will you solve the problem of climate change?
#22Number crunching with Google Earth to find the best places to be in in the future.
why is this getting voted down? I think speculating on which real estate is going to be the future tropical beaches is valid.
Re: Ask YC: How will you solve the problem of climate change?
#23If you mean "global warming", don't worry, it will be discredited soon enough, (for those who don't already know it is a pile of crap, and I mean that in the most rigorous mathematical sense). I don't fear "climate change" as in most temperate zones climate changes every 6 months, just as it has for thousands of years.
How do you discredit global warming mathematically?
You examine the current mathematical climate models and determine their limitations in terms of available CPU power, RAM, disk on even the largest supercomputers.
Then you take into account the lack of any accurate model at all being available for the operation of the seas and oceans - we don't have an accurate mathematical model for even the Gulf Stream, for instance; much less the rest of the world.
Then you realize that all prediction models are so error-prone due to the above that they cannot be relied upon with a reasonable degree of certainty.
Re: Ask YC: How will you solve the problem of climate change?
#24Massive decrease of earth's human population. Biological, Nuclear or Nano, pick your delivery method ... Stop worrying and learn to love the extinction event.
Re: Ask YC: How will you solve the problem of climate change?
#25If you mean "global warming", don't worry, it will be discredited soon enough, (for those who don't already know it is a pile of crap, and I mean that in the most rigorous mathematical sense). I don't fear "climate change" as in most temperate zones climate changes every 6 months, just as it has for thousands of years.
Seasonal change != Climate change. The former is something ecosystems have had years to adapt to. The latter is a problem because it disrupts an established pattern & organisms (including ourselves) have not learned to adapt to the new environment. The loss of biological diversity as a result of human disruptions of ecosystems is the real killer here.
Re: Ask YC: How will you solve the problem of climate change?
#26Global warming will be defeated by incremental increases in efficiency across the board.... think of it as the death of a thousand cuts.
Everything from better internal combustion engines, electric motors, improved solar energy technology, carbon capture to my affliction, aerodynamic drag, will make “small” but significant progress.
Combined, those incremental advances will add up to a serious threat to the threat of climate change.
Re: Ask YC: How will you solve the problem of climate change?
#27With a solution that passes a cost-benefit analysis. None of the most popular proposals do. Seriously.
Efficient markets will weed out ideas that fail this analysis in time.
Incentives like the Automotive X-Prize will accelerate this process, leading to solutions that are smart for the planet and smart investments, too.