The abstract reads: This article traces how climate has moved from playing a deterministic to a reductionist role in discourses about environment, society, and the future. Climate determinism previously offered an explanation, and hence a justification, for the superiority of certain imperial races and cultures. The argument put forward here is that the new climate reductionism is driven by the hegemony exercised by the predictive natural sciences over contingent, imaginative, and humanistic accounts of social life and visions of the future. It is a hegemony that lends disproportionate power in political and social discourse to model-based descriptions of putative future climates. Some possible reasons for this climate reductionism, as well as some of the limitations and dangers of this position for human relationships with the future, are suggested.
Sunday, December 25, 2011
He had me (I think) at "disproportionate power in political and social discourse to model-based descriptions of putative future climates": Warmist Mike Hulme writes some more mumbo-jumbo in an apparent attempt to communicate
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In other words, "I am a pompous ass who thanks to the wealth in my society was able to learn a lot of big words so as to over-communicate therefore request that everyone send me money. Lots and Lots.
Brian Lemon
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