Basing himself on doctrines met in his reading, on the experience of his travels, and on experiments—admittedly somewhat naive conducted at Bordeaux, he stressed the effect of climate, primarily thinking of heat and cold, on the physical frame of the individual, and, as a consequence, on the intellectual outlook of society.
In addition to proposing a change in the architects' way of thinking, the climate change further requires an improvement in the environment, politics and social consciousness.
I find it hard to draw the same conclusion in looking at my coverage, which has long included the voices of researchers challenging the predominant line of thinking on climate science, among them Roger Pielke Sr., Richard Lindzen, who was quoted in the 2006 article you read, John Christy, Ivar Giaever (a Nobelist who rejects the science pointing to dangerous greenhouse warming) and others.
A year ago, I publicly pondered whether the Pope's encyclical would shake up established ways of thinking about climate change.
The world faces some big shocks in the realms of sustainability and climate change, and the ways of thinking about the future described in Taleb's book will come in handy.
SWOON: So much about the boats for me was always this loose narrative of thinking about climate change, and thinking about floods, and thinking about the idea of the coastal purchase of cities breaking off and then traveling and mutating and changing.
"I think the really big breakthrough in this report is the new idea of thinking about managing climate change as a problem in managing risks," said Dr Chris Field.
The general line of thinking here is that climate is too complex, too long-term and too boring.
Climate science has been characterised as one of thinking globally but acting locally.
