COLLINS: Scary climate words should not be trivialized
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WE’VE HEARD ABOUT the “perfect storm”, the “atmospheric river”, and now “the cyclone bomb”. These comments either tend to be poo-pooed by skeptics or used as a warning by scientists concerned with the future of our planet.
Here’s the deal. If you believe that these statements are excessive, you don’t have a clue about what’s happening out there. I’m not sure what it will take to make you see how bad things are getting and how little time we have left to change.
When we look at the flooding in the Fraser Valley the past couple of years or the cyclone bomb that hit the coast this week, we have a choice — look at them as isolated incidents or, more appropriately, look at them as part of a much bigger problem. You would assume that anyone who could think would see that with more devastating and hotter wildfires each year, more devastating storms and flooding, and an increasing number of isolated but severe incidents — like glacier melting, oceans rising and landslides, to name a few — that we are on a slippery slope.
Add to that the attitude of the U. S. President-elect toward the environment and it doesn’t take much to see that we have a very narrow window to effect change.
