The article can be found here.This article is about how scientists studying the weather (and more specifically, the floods) in the UK have evidence that suggests there is a link to climate change. The former Conservative party Chancellor Lord Lawson dismissed these comments as “absurd” for drawing a link between the floods and climate change. Others in government disagree. “This type of climate change denying conservatism is willfully ignorant, head in the sand, nimbyist conservatism,” said Ed Davey, the U.K.’s Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, in a speech on Feb. 13.
I think it's a bit silly for those in the government to deny that climate change has anything to do with the floods, but it is also just as silly to blame this one event on climate change. There's not a whole lot that the British government can do about it. They can't fix the floods, but maybe they can implement more preventative measures in areas that are at high risk of flooding? And maybe slowly add more environmentally friendly changes to every day life in Britain (and the rest of the world should do this as well) to help counteract our impact on global warming? Britain can't do too much to stop the extreme weather that is bound to come, but maybe take some preventative measures to ease the impact a bit. We are all responsible for the climate change, so we should all be working to repair some of the damage made.
Yeah, nothing totally drastic has to happen, but small, slow changes would be good for everyone.
ReplyDeleteI agree, the government cant prevent the floods. Its a world-wide contribution to the climate change that is happening. If floods are a problem, it only makes sense to assist in areas that are flooding. Build more levees, and like you said, implement more preventative measures. Flooding is a major problem for individuals and also communities. So it should be a concern for the state also.
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