Commentary: To handle climate change, learn to be resilient

Salt Lake City Tribune ^ | November 27, 2018 | By Samantha Brimhall

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change just released its new report on climate change. It details a very, very scary future if we don’t start to curb climate change now.

If you’re not concerned yet, you should be. In the scorching reality of climate change, Utahns need to face the harrowing fact that it’s only going to get worse from here, but that this doesn’t have to be the end of us.

The main story doesn’t change. The rapid and excessive use of fossil fuels pollutes our air, which contributes to the Greenhouse Effect, which warms the air, which changes weather patterns, which adversely affects those ecosystems unused to climate shifts, and so on.

We’ve heard it all before. It’s a dreary matter to consider our polluted world. It causes one to experience denial, guilt and grief. Even the most proud consumer can feel the burden of climate change. What lacks significantly in these climate musings is a discussion about what people are doing right now to prepare for these inevitabilities of a changing climate. Not all is lost!

The best thing we can do is help ourselves by making our communities more resilient when the climate comes a-knockin’ and it all starts with knowing where to go and what to do.

For me, I’ll be focusing on clean energy efforts to limit our use of fossil fuels, something that I see as the most mitigating effort of combating climate change.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Samantha Brimhall is a student at the University of Utah, currently studying environmental sustainability.

[Lazamataz]

I hope she perishes first when the ice age hits.

[Skywise]

Huh... one report and massive coordinated messaging about it followed by a bombardment in the local news with customized, “independent” articles. (the Indy Star has a breathless article about what cataclysms are coming for us)
Smells like a marketing campaign...

[Bonemaker]

FU and the IPCC too. We are 56 hours into no power. 40’s in the house.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

D@mned straight. Coordinated.

[Magic Fingers]

“The main story doesn’t change.”

Bullsh!t. It changes every time the data doesn’t fit your models.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

I hope she perishes first when the ice age hits.

After, I presume, you hit it.

[webheart]

... and so on. That’s like saying et cetera. Et cetera is words used to make people sound like they know more than they actually do. Mark Twain said that. Saying and so on leaves a lot open to speculation. They never suggest that any of the changes might be positive.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Smells like a marketing campaign...

Bigly.

[bigbob]

With her toes vertical

[SpaceBar]

Mass insanity amongst human beings is a very real phenomenon that has been observed throughout history, has been attributed to a variety of causes over the centuries including demonic possession, and just rears its ugly head from time to time without warning, like the present for example.

[GaryCrow]

Don’t forget to give more money to Al Gore, that’s the biggest thing you can do to combat climate change.

[G Larry]

Learn to scoff and roll your eyes derisively.

[Sacajaweau]

I'm working on a fart suppression solution.

Remember the bathtub when you were a kid.

[Mogger]

Reminds one of the Millerites and Muggletonions.

[alloysteel]

There are NO changes that mere mankind can make that have more than very transient effect on local weather, let alone either short- or long-term global climate.

But human beings CAN adapt to the changing conditions, and have, throughout the ages. There have been long-term warm periods in which expansion of human influence has spread, then followed by long-term downturns, during which exploration and expansion was sharply curtailed. In neither instance were there large-scale human extinctions.

[outpostinmass2]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VooaLRqTSPI

Nova series “Do scientist cheat”

[Rinnwald]

Don’t forget to give more money to Al Gore, that’s the biggest thing you can do to combat climate change.

Yes, Fat Albert will block out the sun.

[Russ]

How do you propose to “curb climate change”, Ms. Brimhall, you genius? You and your misguided ilk think you can alter or eliminate that which God created and controls? The only thing you will accomplish is to die bitter and frustrated.

[Vigilanteman]

This is the wisdom of Utes who didn't live through the first round of bloviators on "climate change" which told us back, circa 1970, that we would all freeze to death due to the effect of the pollutants blocking the sun's rays . . .

And, for a few short years, they were right. We had big snowfalls and lower temperatures in the 1970s. Then it warmed up again in the 1990s and they called it "global warming." Now, they simply call it "climate change." When has the climate not changed? How does a puny creature like man think he can change sunspots, wind patterns and all the natural forces which go into "climate change"?

We can do our best to forecast weather and climate patterns and determine how best to adapt to it. Beyond slight nudges like cloud seeding and not building poorly designed huge recreational reservoirs upstream from populated towns (Johnstown, PA circa 1880, for example), there is little we can do to actually affect weather.