The Age of Climate Change
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The AGE of CLIMATE CHANGE. A RITE of PASSAGE. Humanity as a Geological Force of Nature for Planetary Energy Equilibrium. The title of the book, The Age of Climate Change implies that climate change has a beginning, middle, and an end. The book says climate change began in 1776, not with the signing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, but with the publishing of Adam Smiths The Wealth of Nations. We are in the middle of it now. What we are trying to figure out is how will it end.Humanity collectively will make choices to decide the outcome. The Age of Climate Change frames the climate change while considering contributing factors from a variety of disciplines and presents three options for how to proceed and then asks you the reader to choose.The Age of Climate Change is a story of a species, us, on a planet, Earth, here and now. It is a story of astounding success achieved with a hidden cost, climate change. The challenge of climate change is how to retain the success that brought us to where we are here and now while managing the cost. The Age of Climate Change is a proposal of how to retain our collective successes and dispose of the debt, in the form of climate change, incurred to achieve it.Our success is astounding. We, humanity, have prospered, filled the Earth, and subdued it. So much so that the collective output of daily human activity is now large enough to affect the planets energy balance. Since 1776 humanity has injected two trillion tons of greenhouse gases into the biosphere. The GHGs, warmed by the sun, disrupt the energy balance of the planet to the hot side of equilibrium. As the concentration of CO2 in the air increase the scale and scope of the disruption will increase. Already, given an atmospheric concentration of CO2 of 415 ppm, we are in uncharted territory. That makes us a geological force of nature. We are now in partnership with nature to manage the energy equilibrium of the planet.We have the numbers. We can do the ma
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