{"id":7,"date":"2010-08-20T19:30:24","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T23:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/?p=7"},"modified":"2010-09-16T23:28:54","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T03:28:54","slug":"7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/2010\/08\/20\/7\/","title":{"rendered":"History matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What counts as knowledge?\u00a0 This new book on the history of weather and climate engineering triggered a 2009 invitation from the <a href=\"http:\/\/science.house.gov\/publications\/hearings_markups_details.aspx?NewsID=2668\">US House Committee on Science and Technology<\/a> to present testimony and answer questions.\u00a0 Now the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gao.gov\/\">US General Accountability Office<\/a> has asked for my input to a study of climate change response strategies.\u00a0 History should inform sound public policy, and this is an example in which &#8220;history matters&#8221; to more than just historians.<\/p>\n<p>Study the past.\u00a0 Without history, technocrats with nothing more than current &#8220;best science&#8221; perspectives will be running the show and trying to &#8220;fix the sky&#8221; with some very heavy-handed techniques.<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-7\" data-postid=\"7\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-7 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What counts as knowledge?\u00a0 This new book on the history of weather and climate engineering triggered a 2009 invitation from the US House Committee on Science and Technology to present testimony and answer questions.\u00a0 Now the US General Accountability Office has asked for my input to a study of climate change response strategies.\u00a0 History should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5947],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}