How the Gathering of Data Is Driving Our Understanding of Climate Change and How It Can Be Mitigated

One of the core tenets of business management is “You can’t manage what you can’t measure.”  That’s why data collection and usage is among the key trends when it comes to corporations’ efforts to reduce their emissions footprints.

Something struck me during my interview with Dr. V. Ramanathan at the Scripps Institute in 2009, in preparation for my first book, Renewable Energy–Facts and Fantasies: we were sitting in a room almost completely surrounded by cardboard boxes, piled to the ceiling.  When I asked the good doctor what was in all those boxes, he said, “Oh it’s temperature and CO2 data from literally all over the world that goes back 40 years.”