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Bill Liggett writes fiction that blends behavioral and earth sciences in the new cli-fi (climate fiction) literary genre. His goal is to paint a hopeful future, based on solutions to global warming. He holds a BS in geology and an MA in education, both from Stanford University, and a PhD in applied social psychology from New York University. Among the many positions he has held over the years, he taught in high school and college, conducted behavioral science studies for IBM, and consulted with health care and educational organizations. Wherever he lives, he loves being outdoors. Home for him has included the West Coast, East Coast, Alaska, and now Colorado, the state of his childhood. He and his wife, Cathy, live in Niwot.

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The Controversy Over Solar Radiation Management Research

Are methods to cool the earth so threatening that we must agree to not even study them? That is the argument being made by the authors of the paper: “Solar Geoengineering: The Case for an International Non-use Agreement.” Or should we develop criteria and an organized approach to studying proposals for cooling as spelled out in the paper “Research Criteria Towards an Interdisciplinary Stratospheri

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Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

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“The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

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“Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.”
― Michael Crichton

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“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
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