A local climate expert said recently, “This is the first generation of farmers who cannot depend on historical data.” If you have in your mind that Climate Change means steady warming and no more hard winters, you’re not following the news. Overall worldwide temperatures are steadily rising but on a local level things can go awry because of local weather patterns, anomalies like the Polar Vortex, and other disruptive short-term extreme weather are occurring because the relatively stable climate of the Holocene, has now been disrupted. Planning for local farming and heating and snow plowing and is not going to be neat and clean, there is a lot climate experts don’t know about the short-term effects of a climate gone off the rails—and this lack of complete knowledge is not a good thing. We should be finding out a lot more of how Climate Change will be affecting our region, so we can plan properly. This frantic effort to find enough firewood is occurring NOT because Climate Change isn’t happening; it’s occurring because Climate Change is happening. More on Climate Change in our area: rochesterenvironment/weather&climate.htm
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 13:36:00 +0000
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