Now, over 40 years later, it feels like I’m back in a different kind of darkness — the darkness of the Trump administration’s scientific ignorance.
In my case, that one thing is to study the nature and causes of climate change.
You spend years learning about the climate system, computer models of climate and climate observations.
You apply those engineering insights to the detection of a human-caused warming signal buried in the natural “noise” of Earth’s climate.
In 1995, the conclusion is this: “The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate.”
The primary cloud I see is the self-created cloud of willful ignorance on the science of climate change.
But for my own part, I don’t intend to spend the rest of my life in darkness or silently accepting trickle-down ignorance. »
