One thing that is really going to help us to combat climate
change in the next coming years is the use of computer models. I’m not talking
about how technology will basically run our lives in the coming future but
about how computer models can be used to help us to be able to look at what a possible
future might look like given a certain set of variables.
Current technology has the capability to take complex
systems and solve them faster than humans are currently able to. They also are
able to take these complex systems and apply them to more complex systems much
like that consisting of our climate. The thought behind computer models is to
be able to take this technology and apply it to our current climate situation
to find out what path we are on.
This technique is used a lot by people in civil engineering
and climate science. Since it would not be advisable to implement geo-engineering
techniques without knowing the effects it would have, computer models offer us
an opportunity to be able to see what would happen to our earth is we used such
techniques.
Many computer models have not shown positive results when it
comes to either our current climate trajectory or implemented geo-engineering
techniques. Many have shown catastrophic effects for distinct parts of the world
through such things as localized drought and floods.
Overall computer models are the closest thing to a futurist
prediction of earth’s climate as we are going to get. I believe that computer
models should continue to be used for previews of implementation of certain
climate actions even if the results they show are not something positive. By
using them we are able to save our planet from more catastrophic anthropogenic
effects.
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