Climate Adaptation Getting a Wider Hearing
That’s what I’m wondering, anyway, over at Frontier Earth.
Posts Tagged ‘adaptation’
Grist: Let's talk About Adaptation
Actually, it’s David Roberts at Grist, and he recommends that adaptation undergo a linguistic makeover to make it more palatable. More on that in a minute. What’s most notable about Roberts’ post is that he has had a change of heart on an issue that, based on my own anecdotal experience, will be met with…Continue Reading…
Getting Serious about Adaptation
The Economist explains why adaptation has long been marginalized in the climate debate: The green pressure groups and politicians who have driven the debate on climate change have often been loath to see attention paid to adaptation, on the ground that the more people thought about it, the less motivated they would be to push…Continue Reading…
Plan Z
Well, I’m not gone yet. I just read this op-ed in today’s NYT by Thomas Homer-Dixon, which is related to, um, a certain controversial post. Count Homer-Dixon among those who believe it will take a major, unequivocal climate shock to spur worldwide action on global warming. Meanwhile, he writes: Policy makers need to accept that…Continue Reading…
A Wicked Problem
Several weeks ago, a varied group of distinguished scholars released a provocative treatise, called The Hartwell Paper: A new direction for climate policy after the crash of 2009. It got a decent splash of media coverage. The Economist wrote an excellent overview and analysis. The BBC’s Richard Black posted a respectful and mildly critical review….Continue Reading…
The Zero Sum Climate Game
Michael Tobis is to be applauded for being open to the idea of geoengineering, but he’s delusional if he thinks the climate activist community is also open to it. In my post yesterday, I argued that, for climate activists, any discussion of climate adaptation is an unwelcome distraction from the debate at hand on mitigation….Continue Reading…
Dumbing Down Geoengineering Talk
More proof that environmentalists can’t chew gum and talk about climate adaptation at the same time comes in this post from David Roberts at Grist. The cognitive dissonance from this crowd continues to amaze me. As we learned earlier this year, the carbon load already in the atmosphere is projected to lead to irreversible climate…Continue Reading…
Gotham Prepares for Global Warming
I had no idea that NYC was taking such a pro-active approach to climate adaptation. When I read stories like this, which also discusses how other major cities in the world are making similar plans for a hotter, more turbulent climate, I can’t help but wonder if climate change debate has broken off into two…Continue Reading…
Adaptation Is Not A "Trap"
I don’t understand how someone can call himself a climate change “pragmatic” and entirely dismiss the need for adaptation. Let me see if I get Joe Romm’s logic right: The tragedy of Katrina demonstrated that we can’t do adaptation, so why bother? I understand that Romm and many other climate advocates regard talk of adaptation…Continue Reading…
Rogue Climate Adaptors
Today, the world can’t agree on how to curb carbon emissions. So imagine the not-too-distant future, when climate change has unmistakably arrived but countries can’t settle on which technological fixes should be employed. So the International Institute for Strategic Studies wonders, what’s to stop a country facing monsoon after monsoon from unilaterally trying to cool…Continue Reading…