John Kerry Climate Czar pick!

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17. Coincidentally, I am trained as a Chemical Engineer, with years of experience behind me.

I have routinely seen Engineers become supervisors and flounder. You know who the best managers that I had while working in corporate America were? They were people who may not have understood the technical aspects of an issue well, but who had the presence of mind to seek out experts and listen. They got educated and were able to make executive decisions. The worst managers were the ones that were always trying to out think the professionals who were on the point of an issue that needed to be addressed.

I honestly don’t know the Climate Scientist who you feel is right for the job, but I do know there is a massive difference between being good in one’s area of training and expertise versus leading an organization that has a number of people that will have as much expertise. I have been doing a formulation in an area of chemical emulsions that I had no experience in. I prepared, read all the expert advice and ran all past experiments along those advice lines. I kept getting an ok product, but it didn’t give me the exact properties that I wanted. So, much earlier today, I was setting up another experiment and based upon past experience, I decided to try something which the experts didn’t cover, it worked, I got product characteristics that I have been working months to get. The example may seem like an aside to you, but I believe it hits at a central point, effective decision making often involves being able to see an aspect of an issue that more expert people either didn’t see or failed to fully explain. John Kerry has varied experience listening to experts in a large number of fields and then making an executive decision, I really don’t believe the Climate Scientist has that broad depth of experience and as a consequence, his summation of what is possible may be narrower that what Kerry imagines is possible.

I don’t know whether my view on it matches yours, but I hear people say or see the write the “Green New Deal” and I wonder what in the hell they are talking about. If their concept is putting solar panels of everything, that has some merit, up to a point. But solar panels or wind turbines along won’t come close to solving the built up problem, although they will delay our arrival at a point of no return. My sense is that a multi-pronged approach is better suited for both addressing the built up greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and reducing our generation of more green house gases. I see large expanses of highway and government owned road medians and land beyond the road shoulder that is poorly utilized for sequestering Carbon compounds. The have lots of grass, but not plants that work around the clock to absorb carbon compounds and have a positive net carbon sequestration. We could turn our highways, roadways, Parks borderland and even divided highways in cities into a massive collection of carbon sinks that exceed the Amazon’s capacity in this area. Think of how much highway medians and grassland beside roads there is. We can encourage farmers to put carbon sink plants along their fence lines and pay them to expand the width of those sinks - that helps the broader world and it helps farmers with income and even drought avoidance down the line as the climate starts to cool down is carbon source greenhouse gases are drawn out of the atmosphere, or prevented from going there.