Arguing that human beings can simply adapt to climate change suggests the climate will stop changing.
Almost no one asks me anymore whether climate change is real.
Almost no one asks me anymore whether climate change is real. I’d like to think that’s because we climate scientists have finally mastered the art of persuasion. But it’s clear that the Earth is changing minds more effectively than we or any scientific report ever could. It’s hard to deny what’s going on, but there’s still money to be made in delaying climate action. Thus, the denier narrative has shifted from saying climate change isn’t real to saying climate change is real, but we’llThe “just” is the part that worries me. Clearly, we need to adapt. Our society was built for a climate that no longer exists, and we have no choice but to change. But we should never pretend adaptation is the easy way out.
Worse still, climate change increases the risk of compound extremes — that’s science for “double whammy” — multiple events that occur simultaneously or in quick succession. Think landslides caused by heavy rain after a wildfire or a heat wave that hampers rescue efforts after a hurricane.changing. When people say “adapt,” I always wonder:Suppose we manage to “adapt” to the current game of whatever hellscape roulette we’re experiencing.
The science, while complex, is the easy part. In a climate model, we can quantify the contribution of climate change to any given extreme event by running thousands of simulations, some with elevated greenhouse gas concentrations, some without.But climate change doesn’t happen in a model. It happens in the real world. Weird weather intersects with the society we’ve built.
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