Climate Change Adaptation and Big Data

The New Yorker Magazine tells an optimistic story about how "Big Data" will help farmers cope with climate change  and climate risk.  In a nutshell what the article argues is an analogy;   Baseball's Billy Bean (think Moneyball) is to Baseball what Jeffrey Hamlin is to farming.  Both use analytics to achieve efficiency increases given limited resources.   Human ingenuity increases our productivity and helps us to adapt.  This is the Climatopolis logic and this is how Jeffrey Hamlin will grow rich and you will still have food on your table to eat.   Elizabeth Kolbert should read her own magazine!