After watching this presentation, I can't help but see the important role that engineers must perform in delivering "The Climate Fix".
http://www.pics.uvic.ca/webstream.php#pielke
Title: The Climate Fix - What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You about Global Warming
Speaker: Dr. Roger Pielke Jr., Centre for Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Colorado at Boulder
Related:
http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/about_us/meet_us/roger_pielke/
http://blogs.ft.com/crookblog/2011/06/more-on-germanys-energy-incoherence/