Climate Science and Energy Engineering Dinner
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We meet monthly for dinner on the second Monday of the month to discuss climate science and zero-carbon energy engineering.
There will be OPTIONAL reading, but we will assume nobody did it and the event will begin, once everyone has ordered dinner, with a 30-60 minutes presentation of the material, followed by discussion.
The Skylight Diner has a wide variety of cuisines, generation portions, and does separate checks so everyone can pay with their own credit card.
We feel that you can't be of much use as an environmentalist unless you are technically well-informed. Environmental problems are scientific problems, and how to solve them is an engineering question. If you are not technically well-informed, you will make inaccurate statements about science that are an embarrassment to the environmental movement, and the solutions you advocate will be ill-advised and/or counter-productive. So the purpose of these dinners is to create a space for informative discussion of climate science and zero-carbon energy engineering.
Environmentalists who are scientifically poorly-informed have an infamous track record of making predictions (often dire) that do not materialize as scheduled, and advocating solutions that are poor engineering choices.
The IPCC has been making reports with climate predictions every few years for decades, and their predictions have been pretty accurate. Unfortunately, many of the most famous spokespeople for the climate movement say ridiculous things that show they haven't read them. So our topic this month will be "What is predicted? How bad do we expect it to get, and how fast?".