One of the major problems of global warming, impending global flooding, is easily circumvented by human ingenuity. It's a lot of water, it's the majority of the surface of the planet. There's continental crust and below ocean crust: dig tunnels to gradually release water pressure, volume. If the thing hasn't flooded yet, time to build them means time to solve other environmental issues. You can store water to preserve sea life. Little pressure is likely to be taken off volume in this manner. Water can be frozen artificially, as well, global oceanic temperatures could conceivably be artificially regulated. natural and Artificial Pollution extraction, global temperature control, toxicity neutralization, artificial ecosystem (simplicity to promote long term stability means small scale population preservation) Department of Research: brainstorming, to hire artists in collaboration with the scientifically minded Department of Research: the history of the failings and successes of human ingenuity, and the precision calculation of probability margin success and failure Department of Research: how to trigger effective participation in others, prevention and toxicity reversal given a sufficient delay, it may eventually be possible to perform equations wherein calculations can be precisely preformed to predetermine a perfected method of weather, temperature, and ecosystem control: a transition into human ingenuity directed global evolution Department of Research: how to objectify intellectual faculty of others, how to minimize intellectual abstraction, how to perfect an interaction between creativity and analytical reason without permitting delusion