Wisconsin adapting to climate change should be common sense | Letter
Wisconsin adapting to climate change should be common sense | Letter
Implicit in the adaptation strategy is that climate change is caused by much more than man’s carbon emissions.
Letters to the Editor | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Historic Milwaukee rain shows we can’t escape climate chaos | Opinion
What does it take to go from ‘climate haven’ to ‘climate resilient?’ Allow the myth that we are somehow immune from weather disasters to float away.
Kudos to Kristin Brey for her Aug. 17 clarion call for common sense adaptation to the inevitability of climate change and its unpredictable rainfall effects (“We are not immune”).
Implicit in the adaptation strategy is that climate change is caused by much more than man’s carbon emissions (e.g. solar radiation, volcanic eruption, etc.). Implicit, too, is the realism that curtailing climate change, particularly such naturally caused climate change, is beyond man’s control.
Brey’s sanguine advocacy is historically sound as it has been adaptation to climate change that has been man’s salvation for man’s thousands of years existence. Thus, Brey’s advocacy for Wisconsinites to focus on absorption of excess rainfall, upgrading protective infrastructure, building on safer sites, budgeting for weather emergencies, etc. is wise advice indeed.
David Croysdale, Mequon
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