MEERTALK at 7pm London time today (December 4th)
MEER stands for "Mirrors for Earth's Energy Rebalancing". Its proposal is to develop low cost mirrors that can be used to reflect more of the Sun's energy back into space, thus countering the impact of human-generated CO2 warming the planet by absorbing more of the Sun's energy.
My topic is "The Appallingly Bad Neoclassical Economics of Climate Change". I will show how the conclusions that have convinced people like Financial Times columnist Stuart Kirk that global warming isn't a problem are based on the shoddiest work ever to emerge from peer-reviewed research. Correcting its many errors leads to the implication that global warming is not minor and distant threat, but a major and immediate one.
Given that the trivializing work of economists on climate change has dominated how society has responded to climate change, we have left it far too late for a technological fix via a transition to no-carbon forms of energy exploitation. A proposal like MEER, even taking into account the side-effects it will inevitably have, is necessary if civilisation is to have any hope of surviving the looming ecological crisis.
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