Occupy Harvard Prepares for a Cold Winter

This Harvard Crimson article provides details about the plans that Occupy Harvard participants are taking to continue to camp out even as it gets cold outside.  This is another (and funny) example of expectations causing ex-ante adaptive efforts that help us to cope with changing climate conditions.  The Harvard "radicals" are good data points for the Climatopolis world view.  They will use market products (better insulated tents) to lower the probability that they suffer when it is very cold soon.

"The occupiers are currently considering a number of different methods to transform the frame into a shelter, including installing a plastic skin that would waterproof the dome and additional insulation to keep it warm, according to Bhalla.Another option includes turning the dome into a green house that would be heated by natural light. This approach would allow the walls of the dome to be transparent while maintaining warmth even in five-degree weather, said Timothy S. McGrath, a student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences."


For those who say we are myopic and don't adjust our expectations until it is too late, I say "Occupy Harvard".