rest in large measure on the IPCC assessments, and EPA appears to have accepted them wholesale,” said Inhofe, who serves as top Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

IPCC came under fire in 2009, when more than a thousand emails stolen from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit were leaked. Climate change skeptics said that some of those messages implied that data had been manipulated to emphasize man-made causes for climate change. Some of the scientists whose emails were hacked had been featured in IPCC reports. But a review of the emails determined that the scientists had not falsified data.

IPCC officials have also admitted that their 2007 report incorrectly stated Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035. They attributed this to an editing error, notMenu

Adaptive Design

27 April 2014

Design up to now is widely conceived as directing the complex assembly and composition of elements into consumable “products” (including buildings). This process also typically bestows a consciously created veneer of aesthetic novelty onto these products, as a way of promoting their (temporary) desirability. (Though often characterized as great art, it is only rarely regarded as such by later generations.) This linear process continues with the rapid obsolescence and disposal of the products, and the creation of new and improved products (with fashionably new artistic veneers) to replace them.

This is a fundamentally unsustainable process.

Adaptive design is a continuous (and continuously beneficial and profitable) process of transformation, in which novel aspects are typically combined with enduring and recurrent ones. Artistic aspects have to work in service