Climate Change Adaptation 

 

About me:

• I am an Environmental Engineer with 35 years of experience working on Air and Water Quality issues.

• Throughout my career, I have been witness to countless unnecessary conflict that has lead to either over protecting or under protecting our environment.  

• In order to achieve advances and innovation in our economic balance with nature, a greater awareness of developing issues must take place; sans vested interest.

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What I've observed:

• As an Environmental manager, I am aware that the foundations of environmental management and regulation  (some 40 plus years ago) are in pollution control of "primary" pollutants.  These include Sulphur Dioxide (SO2); Nitrogen oxides (NOx), particulates; Hydrocarbos (HC); etc.  Carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) - both greenhouse gases - are not among them.

• ​There are no standards for CO2; nor are there any standards for adapting to Climate Change.  

• The nature of Climate Change, leading to Extreme Weather Events, leading to a need to adapt to those Events, is an environmental management challenge like no other.​

• The issue is complex; yet simple.  There is no one cause; and no one solution.

• There are a plethora of web sites and opinions on this issue.

 

Goals: 

•  One goal is to collect, illustrate, and link to well supported scientific information that appears to best illustrate the issues of climate change and climate change adaptation.  

• A second goal is to use quality, clear and concise information, and piece together a story that will illustrate that we can, and must  find a better way.

• A third goal; is to connect you to this issue, to bring awareness to the issue,  to engage in a modified vision of the historic view.