Utah is “missing” on climate change’s super storms
Katharine Biele’s “Hits and Misses” column in the Salt Lake City Weekly featured UPHE’s Climate Ambassador Dr. Mark Goldfarb. He wasn’t the miss, though!
Her “miss” was super storms. “There’s so much going on that we’re discovering new meteorological terms such as ‘rain bombs, heat domes, atmospheric rivers, weather whiplash, and polar vortexes,’ wrote Dr. Mark Goldfarb of the Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment. Here in Utah, our governor has just declared an emergency over the fires raging in and around the state. The Grand Canyon and Utah fires are even creating their own weather systems with the huge fire clouds that they produce.”
When will our representatives start taking the climate crisis seriously? So many of us here in Utah are living through it, with the extended and heightened wildfire seasons. Yet, they celebrate expansions of the fossil fuel industry within our state.
“The looming threat of the climate crisis is very real. And the solutions are also real. Collectively and individually, we have the tools to make a difference. Preserving a livable planet will depend on it. We must pay attention locally, nationally, and globally. We must align all of our actions with our goals; in other words, if our goal is to make changes and stem the rate of environmental decimation, then we must take a look at ourselves—at how we live and how we vote—and make changes and choices that will get us there,” Dr. Goldfarb says.
The Hits and Misses featuring Dr. Goldfarb’s comments.
More on the climate crisis from Dr. Goldfarb ↓
