Earth is upping volume on its climate change warnings
By Robert Graef / Herald Forum
We just don’t get it, no matter how brutal the message. A man surveying the wreckage of his Florida home said, “This was the worst. There can never be another like it!”
An understandable reaction but a mistaken thought. According to trend lines, conditions are on track to ensure even stronger hurricanes. Related trend lines predict longer droughts, wilder wildfires and fiercer floods.
Chaos. No insurance company is staffed to handle the claims generated by Hurricane Ian, and it is doubtful that they have the billions to cover them if they do. The operative word here is unprecedented; unprecedented in memory, damage and liability, as unprecedented as melting Siberian permafrost, melting polar ice fields, and rising sea levels. Practical planners don’t prepare for the unprecedented, otherwise, Florida’s trashed fleet of fishing boats and yachts would have been safe in Louisiana marinas and more than 120 lives would not have ended abruptly. Unprecedented issues call for unprecedented solutions.
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The ferocity of Hurricane Ian was a product of climate change. As an incident, it owned the news until the next incident pushes Ian below the fold, then to interior pages. The Ian event adds to the evolving analysis that gives us the Big Picture. Do we choose to study it, believe it, and understand its significance to global, national and personal well-being? Are we doing everything in our power to set things right, and change our way of life if that’s what it takes? Do we really get it?
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