Climate relativism

Climate scientists confirm what Heraclitus had known for a long time: there is no such thing as a stable climate. Change is the only constant in the chaos that surrounds us. Our technological observational skills show that climate change is accelerating, as is the growth of the global economy. The expected increase in the world population, global wealth and fossil fuel use can only perpetuate climate change. As a result, the global economy may grow somewhat less quickly in the long term. Today's scientists have much more powerful computers than Heraclitus. These machines translate human assumptions into the ideal emission trajectory over hundreds of years. By visualizing the relationship between assumption and consequence, modern man changes his judgment of the climate. Climate change also needs to be tamed. After the observation of a future, the call for intervention follows: we must manage our climate reserve more expertly. A new global project seems to have been born and new industrial growth poles are taking shape. This book describes several striking developments in the changing thinking about climate change. How can we explain that the popular media pay more attention to all sorts of weather phenomena and to hypotheses about the climate in 2100 than to acute contemporary world problems? Why are we more concerned about the average ambient temperature for the much richer future generations than about the poor of today? How was what at first seemed too abstract a hypothesis ultimately transformed into a huge industrial opportunity? Or are the mechanisms of industrial transformation in particular subject to change? And what is finally the most logical conclusion of the climate story?