{"id":770,"date":"2013-08-26T07:08:05","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T12:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/?p=770"},"modified":"2013-08-26T12:59:34","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T17:59:34","slug":"climate-change-a-risk-worth-taking-some-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/26\/climate-change-a-risk-worth-taking-some-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change a Risk Worth Taking Some Action"},"content":{"rendered":"

A <\/span>very good blog<\/span><\/a> on climate change and risk was posted on Grist \u2013 an environmental website which I like to read to round out my perspectives.\u00a0 I like the fact the author discussed climate change within the context of risk.\u00a0 Any time you talk about risk you are talking about probabilities not absolutes.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I had similarly discussed the probability concerns of climate change in <\/span>my previous blog<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 In that blog I pointed out the fact we do things given small probabilities.\u00a0 My example was buckling up whereas Dana discussed even smaller probabilities such as getting cancer and the risk mitigation placed on environmental hazards when presented with cancer risk. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Dana concludes the failure or acting on climate change is from: \u201cThis is in large part due to a lack of public comprehension of the magnitude of the risk we face; a perception problem that social scientists are trying to determine how to overcome.\u201d\u00a0 The real issue once again I noted in <\/span>my previous blog<\/span><\/a> is society focus on NOW and the concept of Carpe Diem and the ME concept.\u00a0\u00a0 Health related issues are certainly going to impact you in your lifetime.\u00a0\u00a0 Climate change direct impact on you is more of a probability.\u00a0\u00a0 In fact, the impact could be positive for you depending on your location and attitude\/(lack off)care of others.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Climate change actions will require \u00a0people to think much longer-term and less about themselves.\u00a0\u00a0 For this reason climate change actions have failed not because of the lack of comprehension.\u00a0\u00a0 I understand why some scientists are trying to put extreme cases out in order for some action.\u00a0\u00a0 However the fact is we cannot change that the climate change impacts may take many years to play out and potentially a lifetime.\u00a0\u00a0 As noted in <\/span>my previous blog<\/span><\/a>, we have too many living on so much on debt with little savings.\u00a0 How do you really expect them to plan beyond 10 years much less a lifetime, regardless of the dire outcomes you may present?\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Without a shift in societies attitude for planning and thinking beyond themselves, we will not likely move forward in any meaningful way in any risk mitigation for climate change.\u00a0 When society gets healthier and reduces the debt load and increases savings, perhaps we will be ready.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Your Energy Consultant,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

David K. Bellman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

614-356-0484<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A very good blog on climate change and risk was posted on Grist \u2013 an environmental website which I like to read to round out my perspectives.\u00a0 I like the fact the author discussed climate change within the context of risk.\u00a0 Any time you talk about risk you are talking about probabilities not absolutes. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[157,104],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-market-insights","tag-climate-change","tag-risk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":772,"href":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions\/772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}