❝ Unmanaged climate changes have the potential to be highly politically disruptive. Who do you think people will look to if their homes are washed away, or their businesses ruined, or farms destroyed, or they can’t drink the water, if not the government?
. This “climate adaptation” is distinct from action to reduce Ireland’s carbon emissions. Rather, it means dealing with the changes in weather patterns that scientists say are now inevitable – baked in – in the coming years because of global heating and changes to the world’s climate. In other words, it means getting ready for weather that is more extreme – hotter, wetter, wilder.
What will these changes to weather patterns mean in Ireland? It’s impossible to say with precision. But it is certain that the changes will not leave Ireland untouched. We know that the general shape will be temperature increases, changes in precipitation patterns, more violent storms and sea-level increases.
The good news is that many of these inevitable changes and dangers can be prepared for and their damage mitigated. But we need to get on with it, and that is a job for politicians and the people who work for them. The Government’s 2022 Adaptation Scorecard assessments – an exercise in measuring progress – found “limited evidence on how adaptation considerations have permeated decision-making or informed credible policy decisions”.
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