WWF climate change adaptation expert Kit Vaughan talks about the limits of adaptation, and how climate change will shake the very foundations of our society.
A certain amount of climate change is inevitable. How can we adapt to this?
That’s difficult to answer. We are not sure what the full extent of the effects will really look like and by when. What we are seeing now are the first easily observable effects, like glacial melt. But there is a certain scientific bandwidth regarding the projected changes. For example, there could be many meters of sea level rise or just 40 centimeters, although recently scientists said that current IPCC projections have underestimated sea level rise and we could be looking at as much as 1.5 meters by the end of the century and associated temperature increases. What we do know is that there is a scary future out there.
See full Interview.
Posts
