An merchandise within the Jan. 1 Seattle Instances “New 12 months’s Morning Transient” e-newsletter started, “2023 will probably be remembered because the 12 months local weather change arrived …” — Uh, excuse me, however the place have you ever been? This unlucky assertion solely serves to strengthen the notion within the minds of many who local weather change is one thing simply now taking place, which we must always all know by now could be removed from the reality.
Sure, 2023 did break world temperature data. However local weather scientists have been issuing warnings since not less than the Nineteen Seventies, lengthy earlier than there was a smidgen of reports media consideration. Temperatures and sea ranges have slowly however more and more risen since then. Can we ignore the tragically growing development of enormous catastrophic wildfires destroying complete communities and displacing tons of of 1000’s? Extra lately and regionally vital, what of the intense warmth dome occasion of 2021 that blew up temperature data, devastated the marine setting, destroyed whole crops and public roads, spawned horrible fires, and killed tons of? Is that when local weather change “arrived”?
How a lot proof do we’d like? Final 12 months was merely the 12 months that some who hadn’t been paying consideration began doing so.
Ed Knight, Camano Island
