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New UA center aims to prepare Tucson, world for climate change

We’re going to have to adapt to more huge wildfires, prolonged heat waves, electricity brownouts, floods and severe droughts and other more extreme events in the future, thanks to climate change, says the director of a new University of Arizona research center that will try to help people do that.

“That’s really how people experience climate change,” says Kathy Jacobs, director of UA’s new Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions. “The idea that climate change impacts happen slowly and incrementally is really the wrong way to look at this.

“People are confident in their ability to take off another layer of clothes or put on the thermostat. What is of greatest concern is extreme events,” said Jacobs, a longtime Tucsonan who recently returned here after working four years as a scientist for the White House in Washington, D.C. “People get caught by surprise all the time, but there’s no need to be surprised. We can actually be prepared.”

Meanwhile, coastal cities have fewer options.
 
another worthless center the people in Arizona gets to pay for..it's just never ending

and another gloBULL warming crying wolf who happen to just left working for the Obama administration



yeah, people can be prepared, just like they are for hurricanes, tornadoes, etc..But he needed to open a center to tell us all that
 
What makes people think that the Warmers are a crazy, end of times, Death worshiping Cult?
 
New UA center aims to prepare Tucson, world for climate change

We’re going to have to adapt to more huge wildfires, prolonged heat waves, electricity brownouts, floods and severe droughts and other more extreme events in the future, thanks to climate change, says the director of a new University of Arizona research center that will try to help people do that.

“That’s really how people experience climate change,” says Kathy Jacobs, director of UA’s new Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions. “The idea that climate change impacts happen slowly and incrementally is really the wrong way to look at this.

“People are confident in their ability to take off another layer of clothes or put on the thermostat. What is of greatest concern is extreme events,” said Jacobs, a longtime Tucsonan who recently returned here after working four years as a scientist for the White House in Washington, D.C. “People get caught by surprise all the time, but there’s no need to be surprised. We can actually be prepared.”
Meanwhile, coastal cities have fewer options.

Wildfires in the desert.

Have you ever been in a fucking desert?
 
Do not prepare and to denigrate a form active climate therapy is depravity revealed.
 
Ah, wisdom in Tucson.

Wildfires in the mountain regions of SE Arizona are a fiercesome sight.
 
...and we never even had wildfires in the Southwest prior to the publication of the Warmer Bible "Earth in the Balance"
 
Do not prepare and to denigrate a form active climate therapy is depravity revealed.

PREPAREDNESS would be buying MORE fire-fighting equipment and communications/control gear.. NOT guaranteeing some folks with "climate change" degrees a living off of grants and tax dollars to worry about it and wring their hands...

What is all this nonsense about "helping people prepare for climate change" ??? It's NOT actually about having fire-fighting resources. It's about nannying folks into turning down their air conditioners and driving less.. Will NOT save a single fire-fighter life..
 
Yarnell, Arizona, 2013, 19 firefighters killed by wildfire.

Would that be what you're referring to, QM? Seems kind of flammable to me.

Yarnell Arizona is in the middle of a fucking forest. Do you understand the difference between forests and deserts, asshole?
 
I live near Tucson. We have two rainy seasons per year. One is in the winter, with occasional showers. The other is after July 1.

This winter, we had one day of rain. It also never dropped below 33 degrees this winter. Everything in the desert in a wildfire just waiting to happen. If a fire gets to the mountains, there is nothing to do but let it burn itself out.
 
New UA center aims to prepare Tucson, world for climate change

We’re going to have to adapt to more huge wildfires, prolonged heat waves, electricity brownouts, floods and severe droughts and other more extreme events in the future, thanks to climate change, says the director of a new University of Arizona research center that will try to help people do that.

“That’s really how people experience climate change,” says Kathy Jacobs, director of UA’s new Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions. “The idea that climate change impacts happen slowly and incrementally is really the wrong way to look at this.

“People are confident in their ability to take off another layer of clothes or put on the thermostat. What is of greatest concern is extreme events,” said Jacobs, a longtime Tucsonan who recently returned here after working four years as a scientist for the White House in Washington, D.C. “People get caught by surprise all the time, but there’s no need to be surprised. We can actually be prepared.”

Meanwhile, coastal cities have fewer options.
When it's bad, Arizonians as well as most of the southwest will be able to enjoy the beautiful warm beeches in Oregon.
 
Yarnell, Arizona, 2013, 19 firefighters killed by wildfire.

Would that be what you're referring to, QM? Seems kind of flammable to me.

Yarnell Arizona is in the middle of a fucking forest. Do you understand the difference between forests and deserts, asshole?

Do you understand that Arizona has both, idiot?

And our High Desert in Oregon has now had several really catastrophic fires. Sagebrush burns hot and fast, and we have had several burns that cover over a hundred square miles. And you are paying more for beef in the stores because of the damage to the rangeland there. The local papers in that very rural area of Oregon have now published maps, front page, of the drought areas in the west.

About 75% of the west is in drought. That means higher prices for wheat, beef, and vegitables. And less of all of them. But that means nothing to our denialists.
 
New UA center aims to prepare Tucson, world for climate change

We’re going to have to adapt to more huge wildfires, prolonged heat waves, electricity brownouts, floods and severe droughts and other more extreme events in the future, thanks to climate change, says the director of a new University of Arizona research center that will try to help people do that.

“That’s really how people experience climate change,” says Kathy Jacobs, director of UA’s new Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions. “The idea that climate change impacts happen slowly and incrementally is really the wrong way to look at this.

“People are confident in their ability to take off another layer of clothes or put on the thermostat. What is of greatest concern is extreme events,” said Jacobs, a longtime Tucsonan who recently returned here after working four years as a scientist for the White House in Washington, D.C. “People get caught by surprise all the time, but there’s no need to be surprised. We can actually be prepared.”
Meanwhile, coastal cities have fewer options.

Wildfires in the desert.

Have you ever been in a fucking desert?

I have. It was called Texas.:badgrin:
 
Oh good a new crisis center for the apopocalypse.. So glad we're on the ball..





Well, you know...if they just admitted that it was normal....they couldn't get a thin dime out of the sheeple. Got to keep the sheeple frightened so you can divest them of their hard won cash.
 
Yarnell, Arizona, 2013, 19 firefighters killed by wildfire.

Would that be what you're referring to, QM? Seems kind of flammable to me.

Yarnell Arizona is in the middle of a fucking forest. Do you understand the difference between forests and deserts, asshole?

Do you understand that Arizona has both, idiot?

And our High Desert in Oregon has now had several really catastrophic fires. Sagebrush burns hot and fast, and we have had several burns that cover over a hundred square miles. And you are paying more for beef in the stores because of the damage to the rangeland there. The local papers in that very rural area of Oregon have now published maps, front page, of the drought areas in the west.

About 75% of the west is in drought. That means higher prices for wheat, beef, and vegitables. And less of all of them. But that means nothing to our denialists.






So? Here's a clue silly person, many of the forests in the west are DEPENDENT on wildfire for its life cycle.



"The vegetation of chaparral communities has evolved to a point it requires fire to spawn regeneration."

Natural History of Fire and Flood Cycles
 
Crown fires and ground fires. A lot of differance between the two. Normal high desert sage fires make strips hundreds of yard wide and mile long. Regenerate grass, and provide feeding grounds for the birds of that area. The remaining sagebrush provides cover for nests. The fires that we have seen in the last decade burn hundreds of square miles, and it takes a couple of years for even the grass to get going again.

Over the past two decades we have seen a large increase in the catastrophic fires in the West. That you deny this is in keeping with your propensity to lie in defense of your insane ideology.
 

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