[MCN] Cities Are Behind in Gauging Their Climate Risk : Scientific American

[Lance Olsen]

Cities Are Behind in Gauging Their Climate Risk <https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiW2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnNjaWVudGlmaWNhbWVyaWNhbi5jb20vYXJ0aWNsZS9jaXRpZXMtYXJlLWJlaGluZC1pbi1nYXVnaW5nLXRoZWlyLWNsaW1hdGUtcmlzay_SAQA?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen>
.
Scientific American
Yesterday

Excerpt
Appleby said what cities are reporting doesn’t line up with data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which says future impacts of climate change will be more severe than what is being felt right now.
Climate change, left unchecked, will undo many of the economic and social gains in cities in recent decades, Appleby said.

=============================================

During WWII, … we transformed our economy incredibly quickly in order to protect ourselves. All hands were on deck. Women flooded into factories, and millions of Americans moved to a new state to work a “war job.” Families including children were also mobilized — and 40 percent of vegetables were grown at home, in “victory gardens.” The government laid down strong regulations, such as a ban on the production of new consumer cars. More than 37 percent of our gross domestic product was spent on the war effort.  

If the United States rises to the challenge of confronting the climate emergency, we can still “cancel the apocalypse” and begin restoring a safe climate and healthy society. The first step is telling the truth. We need a national acknowledgement that we face a climate emergency.

https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/449079-moving-into-emergency-mode-on-climate-change



-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://bigskynet.org/pipermail/missoula-community-news_bigskynet.org/attachments/20191025/42510bcc/attachment.html>