Essays by J. Chapman

I asked an AI about climate change: “Say that we have just been funded with a billion dollar grant to mitigate climate degeneration by behavioral change of the high-emitting consumers.

In order to get a glimpse of possible outcomes from our pollution, and since they cannot run controlled experiments on the entire Earth, some climate scientists resort to computerized models.

Several colleges and school systems now stand out for treating climate education not as a niche specialty, but as a core interdisciplinary field spanning science, engineering, economics, policy, justice, and adaptation.

It has become common, almost reflexive, to attribute climate change to capitalism.

You know, there are contests for just about everything.

Hello GPT, I have a theoretical or mind-game type problem for us.

Reductionist thinking is tidy: it sweeps a cluttered room of human complexity into three neat boxes labeled Red, Green, and Blue.

Climate change is often framed as a crisis of extremes: heat waves, floods, wildfires, and collapsing ice sheets.

It is tempting to think of Earth’s land and ocean ecosystems as separate realms: forests and grasslands on one side, coral reefs and open seas on the other.

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