The article "Will Climate Change Get Some Respect Now?" by Nicholas D. Kristof was about the climate change. In the article it says, "It's true, of course, that no single storm or drought can be credited to climate change." William Solecki says, "You can't say any one single event is reflective of climate change. But it's illustrative of the conditions and events and scenarios that we can expect with climate change." Which is saying that people can't just blame one storm or hurricane is a cause of climate change. In the article it says, "In that sense, whatever it's cause, Sandy offers a window into the way ahead."
"Of the 10 warmest summers on record for the contiguous United States, seven have occurred since 2000," says Jake Crouch of the National Climatic Data Center. People say that due to the recent hot weather we have been having can only be an explanation of climate change. James E. Hansen says, " For the extreme hot weather of the recent past, there is virtually no explanation other than climate change." People feel that there is no easy way of trying to change the climate. In the article it states, "There are no easy solutions, but we may need to invest in cleaner energy, impose a carbon tax or other curbs on greenhouse gases, and above all rethink how we can reduce the toll of changing climate."
I am kind of confused about this article, but when i constantly re-read it i can kind of comprehend what it's about. I feel that there is no way to climate change. People with still drive cars, litter, and do other things that will mess with the climate. Like in the article it said that there will be no easy solution, and i totally agree with that because there is no easy way. Mother nature will be mother nature we can't predict what type of weather she will give us each day.
But there is something in this article that i don't agree with and that is when William Solecki said that "You can't say any one single event is reflective of climate change." I don't agree with that because i feel that anything is a cause of climate change. Like for example if it was to be 76 degrees on Wednesday, but there it's suppose to be a snow storm on Tuesday. And on Wednesday instead of it being 76 degrees it wind up being 55 degrees. I feel that because of the snow storm that following day it changed the weather for Wednesday.
I don't really understand climate change, but yes it is very confusing. But that is why it's called climate change, because at anytime of any hour, day or time the climate could change.
I think that what he means by the comment is, it's impossible to say, "If climate change wasn't happening, then Sandy wouldn't have happened." There is no way to prove that, therefore, you can't "blame" Sandy on climate change. It's helpful to note that scientists have predicted that storms like Sandy are more likely to occur now that climate change is happening. I raise the question about how the average person should respond to climate change in my blog: http://maggiemcgreen.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteNysira,
ReplyDeleteIf you're confused about the article, you should talk to me about it. The author was just pointing out that while we can't say the hurricane was CAUSED by climate change, climate change did create the conditions that made hurricanes like Sandy more likely to happen. He thinks that the politicians are not even talking about this, and that is a real problem because there are likely to be more terrible storms in the future. 80