{"id":131,"date":"2010-07-13T11:56:43","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T18:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/?p=131"},"modified":"2010-07-16T10:11:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T17:11:51","slug":"the-good-skeptic-on-climate-change-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Good Skeptic&#8217; on Climate Change &amp; Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 14\/15 2010<br \/>\n&#8220;You can call me a &#8216;good skeptic.&#8217; I don&#8217;t buy everything the [climate] modelers say. I don&#8217;t buy everything the climate people say. I&#8217;ve worked with them for 40 years. I know where some of the Achilles heels are; some of the arguments,&#8221; states Dr. Mickey Glantz, the Director of the Consortium for Capacity Building, University of Colorado.<br \/>\n&#8220;However, I do see sea level rising. I do see the ten warmest years on record in recent times. Warm ecosystems moving up-slope, that worries me,&#8221; as do other confirmed climate change observations, which he recounts in this candid assessment of the realities of climate change and what , if anything, mankind can do about. But while Glantz recognizes the problems of forecasting the long-range impacts of climate change, for him an equally challenging issue is getting us to agree there is a problem. He asks friends and colleagues, What would it take to get you to change your views on climate change? No one can offer an answer.<br \/>\nHe recommends moving aside the climate scientists and IPCC and convening a engineering panel to start addressing the practical aspects of how to tackle the problem, noting that &#8216;there is no Planet B.&#8217;<br \/>\nOther video presentations from the 2010 Toyota Sustainable Mobility Seminar are available on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evworld.com\/\">EV World.Com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 14\/15 2010 &#8220;You can call me a &#8216;good skeptic.&#8217; I don&#8217;t buy everything the [climate] modelers say. I don&#8217;t buy everything the climate people say. I&#8217;ve worked with them for 40 years. I know where some of the Achilles heels are; some of the arguments,&#8221; states Dr. Mickey Glantz, the Director of the Consortium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,6],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assorted","tag-climate-change","tag-good-skeptic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}