Big Data Not Required: The Benefits Of A Less Complex Model Of Climate Change

Forbes: When we think about climate change, we think big. Big problem, big impasse, big data. What could be more complex than the climate of the entire world and how it changes chaotically? And, as usual, when faced with too many dimensions of information to compute, we simplify. We focus on the amount of carbon burned, or the rise of surface temperatures, catastrophic storms or sea levels. Or, conversely, we deny that any of these things are other than "natural change." What is often missing in the...

URL: http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2012/10/12/big-data-not-required-the-benefits-of-a-less-complex-model-of-climate-change/?ss=strategies-solutions
Enclosure: http://www.constructal.org/en/art/Climate_change_%20in_the_framework_of_the_Constructal_Law.pdf