@Snoro
Something about this headline is far too calming. It's the kind of wording you use when you say "FBI agents use modern tech to discover bank heist in the making." It's never said but you assume "... and so they stopped it." When experts discover stuff in advance you assume they head it off.
Except climate change. Maybe that's why the public isn't concerned. An application of Clarke's Third Law, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." People don't understand the tech so it feels magic, and they think magic can do anything. That comes directly from not having anyway to distinguish what it can and can't do.
Maybe they're used to a continuous stream of positive surprises and hence baffled about why climate science keeps discovering but not fixing things. Or maybe they just assume it IS getting fixed and the scientists are lying since promoting paycheck conspiracies is all the rage in ultra-conservative politics these days
But for whatever reason, I think the headline and maybe the story itself is playing up the tech (and here I'm counting the robot AND the seal as tech). People like the heartwarming idea that one of these helped.
But really we have timely notice of 15 feet of sea level rise and a ticking clock. And the article skates by that as if a mere incidental. It buries the lede, as they say, and possibly with it many of us.
So, all is OK, right? No. It ends on a suggestion humans will rush in and fix things because humans are smarter. Right? Again no. We made this mess. We continue to egg on this mess. The scale of this is too big to drive in a tractor and patch a hole. And anyway as soon as price tags come up someone will say it's too expensive or just a conspiracy to get funding.
So we have the info but refuse to see. This didn't REALLY make the news. It was reduced to a puff piece about cute seals and fun robots. Business as usual. Move along.
But a newly discovered problem still looms. We knew this stuff was happening but we just got clarity on the timeline being shorter than we thought. The REAL message is that we need to move faster. Where is the urgency?
Here I'll end by quoting myself from my essay Humanity's Superpower (spoiler: it's Science), where I hope I made the key point with proper clarity:
"Without Science, our first encounter with a dangerous force is likely to be our last. Science offers super-vision, the ability to see beyond what is merely available to our eyes. But only if we opt to USE that power."
http://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2020/03/humanitys-superpower_28.html
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