Not so long ago we published a semi-serious What will you be paying for in 20 years? These were our own expectations, based on developing technologies and scientific advances. But the US went further. There was a whole symposium dedicated, among other things, to predicting the future that awaits humanity in 2050.
The organizers approached the issue with all seriousness: even the dinner was prepared taking into account the expectations of scientists from possible climate problems that will arise in 30 years. We want to tell you about this unusual dinner.
How will climate change affect the global food system by 2050 and what will change in people's diets? Leading Scientist at MIT and designer from New York University decided to answer this question by developing a menu for (the site is dangerous to your health - approx. ), dedicated to the role and impact of climate change on our lives.
The futuristic dinner was held at the ArtScience Cafe (Cambridge, Massachusetts) and consisted of 4 courses, each of which denoted a different natural landscape. So, a mushroom trio acted as an appetizer: canned, dried and freshly picked mushrooms. Mushrooms are known to help the soil store carbon dioxide. And thus slow down the pace of climate change.
As a main dish, the participants of the symposium were offered two options for possible climate change. One symbolizes more comfortable conditions, possible with the active implementation of environmental programs and a sharp reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. The second, pessimistic dish, personifies the sad future that has come due to the lack of implemented programs to protect the environment.
For the first course, representing the desert, the choice was between pumpkin pie with sorghum honey and cactus fruit gel with dehydrated fruit.
For the second, representing the ocean, guests of the establishment were offered wild striped perch. But only half of the visitors could enjoy the exquisite taste of fish, the second half were offered a not very tasty part with an abundance of bones.
The dessert suggested thinking about melting glaciers and the threat to the Arctic landscape. It was a parfait made of pine milk, “filled” with coniferous smoke and topped with fresh berries and junipers.
Before dinner, Monnier and Wist gave a short presentation on the complexity of modeling the global food system. They stressed that climate models predict increases and decreases in yields for different regions of Africa, and that uncertainty in models could lead to a wide range of predictions for some regions.
This is all interesting, but what does Habr have to do with it?
At least despite the fact that relatively recently artificial intelligence that nature itself is to blame for global warming. That is, human calculations turned out to be completely opposite to AI calculations.
Modeling of the future food system at MIT was carried out using complex mathematical calculations. A powerful resource base was involved, the weather reports of the last decades and numerous environmental reports were studied. However, the results of this large-scale work are refuted by two scientists who deny climatology and the negative human impact on the climate.
They believe that over the past 100 years there have been too few works on this topic and it is impossible to prove that carbon dioxide has the ability to affect the earth's temperature. To prove myself right и collected information from previous studies that calculated temperatures over the past two thousand years from tree rings, coral rods, and the like.
Then they fed that data into the neural network, and the program determined that the temperature had been rising at about the same rate all along. This suggests that carbon dioxide is probably not the cause of global warming. Scientists also note that during the medieval warm period, which lasted from 986 to 1234, the temperature was about the same as today.
It is clear that speculation is possible here, and the truth, as usual, is somewhere in the middle. However, it would be interesting to hear your opinion on this matter.
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Source: habr.com