{"id":267968,"date":"2023-07-17T18:43:45","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T16:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=267968"},"modified":"2023-07-17T18:43:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T16:43:56","slug":"climate-expert-climate-change-is-not-to-blame-for-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=267968","title":{"rendered":"Climate Expert: Climate Change Is Not To Blame For Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By\u00a0P Gosselin<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<\/em>15. July 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Politicians have gotten in the bad habit of blaming everything on climate change \u201cto shift responsibility away from themselves\u201d.<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We have to wonder what attacks\u00a0Friederike Otto<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0will face from the social media. The climate attribution researcher is quoted in an article at\u00a0Utopia<\/a>, which reports:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In her work at Imperial College London and in the World Weather Attribution team, Otto researches the extent to which extreme weather events are actually consequences of the climate crisis. In Zeit\u2019s interview, she says: \u201cI see a tendency to attribute every unusual weather event completely to climate change.\u201d She says it depends on a few factors, such as \u2018good urban planning\u2019 and \u2018necessary adaptation measures,\u2019 whether a situation becomes a disaster. \u2018The climate is not to blame for everything,\u2019 the physicist emphasizes.<\/em><\/p>\nIn her opinion, it is \u2018dangerous\u2019 to say: \u2018Climate change did it, discussion is over.\u2019 According to Otto, this attitude enables politicians to shift responsibility away from themselves. It also distracts from the fact that measures could be taken to minimize the impact \u2013 including, according to the physicist, \u2018early warning systems that reach people of all statuses, information levels and places of residence.’\u201d<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This we\u2019ve seen from all kinds of news reports. In Spain, for example, a man-made road is artificially narrowed and walls are built on the side. After heavy rain, a\u00a0ravine of death<\/a>\u00a0was created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something we also know from the Ahr valley in Germany, where houses and roads were built in areas that were formerly riverbeds. Earlier floods that has occurred in history were simply ignored. Of course, it is convenient to point to climate change, so no planning errors have to be admitted. When people talk about \u201cman-made\u201d, it is simply something more than just CO2, even if some protagonists do not tire of admonishing that we only had to build more wind power and solar, then none of this would have happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Politicians have gotten in the bad habit of blaming everything on climate change \u201cto shift responsibility away from themselves\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":267973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818056,691818102,691818076,691821155],"class_list":{"0":"post-267968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-climate-change","9":"tag-climate-crisis","10":"tag-co2","11":"tag-friederike-otto","13":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/0greg_perry_climate_change.jpg?fit=1200%2C1037&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-17I4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":261574,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=261574","url_meta":{"origin":267968,"position":0},"title":"Where There’s Smoke There’s Wildfire… Is Climate Change to Blame?","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"11\/06\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"During the past week, both the mainstream media and politicians chose to push a false narrative in response to the presence of smoke from Canadian wildfires blanketing New York City. 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