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What is Engineering Aspects of Climate Change about?

At its core, engineering is the application of science to meet specific needs. Note that this avoids the "problem-solving" moniker so often applied to engineering. Indeed, engineers solve problems. But, their calling is much larger than being "fixers." They also prevent problems. They enhance benefits. Engineers have the mentality and systems perspectives needed to approach seemingly intractable problems, like those that may evolve from changes in the globe's climate. Global-scale problems that may or may not occur, must often be met with adaptive solutions. A change in expectations of the type and severity of a problem is no excuse for failure but is a motivation to build modular solutions that can be adjusted with shifting conditions that will unfold with substantial unknowns in time and space. Engineers must also be realistic in the sense that solutions and systems are feasible, not only technically, but economically and socially. Solving the "heat problems" of potential warming scenarios could be to devise cooled, HAZMAT suits for every human being on earth. Certainly, this is technically feasible, but obviously, such an approach is unacceptable from many perspectives, includin

Author

Daniel A. Vallero

Publisher

Elsevier

Published

2021

Language

EN